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Posted by Els on 10/20/00 11:34
Toby Inkster wrote:
> Mark Parnell wrote:
>
>> Yes. But unless you have permission from the other site to do so, it's
>> called hotlinking, and is bandwidth theft.
>
> Nobody is "stealing" the bandwidth. If I choose to link to one of your
> images using an IMG element and other people make requests to the image
> because of my IMG element, then who is using your bandwidth.
>
> You are. Because your webserver is sending out a large binary file. If you
> don't want your bandwidth used up, then configure it to drop all
> conections to port 80.
Sounds a bit like my neighbour is not stealing my electricity when he
taps into one of my outlets, because I'm the one who actually turned
on the electricity in my house?
Or maybe a better analogy - shop sells beer with the promotion: buy 5,
get the 6th free. Do you plead 'not guilty' when they bust you for
only taking the 6th, because it is free? I have pictures on my site
that I pay bandwidth for - they come for free to anyone visiting my
site. Not to anyone not visiting my site.
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