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Posted by Els on 11/28/02 11:34
Toby Inkster wrote:
> Els wrote:
>
>> The thing is though, that with deeplinking, they don't visit your
>> house.
>>
>> One person visited your house, and constructed outlets for hobnobs
>> from your hobnob-room. Big hoovers sucking the hobnobs from their
>> packages and spitting them out at the other end, which happens to be
>> outside your house or even in the next street.
>
> Nah. Providing a URL to visitors is not analogous to hoovering up
> free hobnobs -- it's analogous to providing directions to a source of free
> hobnobs.
Sounds like we're talking about two different things. A direct link
with an href to an image is one thing, but I thought we were
discussing placing someone else's images in a page through an <img>
element, passing the picture off as one's own, and wasting my
bandwidth. I have a large picture of lions on my site. The amount of
bandwidth that takes by my own visitors is fine. But I don't like the
amount of bandwidth it costs from the MySpace users who have hotlinked
my largest image as their backgrounds, which all their MySpace friends
are looking at on a daily basis.
> It's still me that's giving away the hobnobs and I can choose to
> stop giving them away, or restrict access, whenever I want.
Of course. No MySpace user is seeing my lions on their homepages
anymore. But taking someone else's stuff is still theft, whether the
door was locked or not.
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