My link url just posted as F_CK YOU HOT LINKER!

[El Fuego]

I was trying to put a picture in a post, and when it posted it was a big yellow and black banner that said FUCK YOU HOT LINKER! I mean, how rude!!!! So I went "Ack!!" and deleted it.

What's the world coming to when you can't steal online content to support your attempts at humor. Geez.

Here I thought was just a mild-mannered DU poster, but this morning I learned that I am ... (cue dramatic music)A HOT LINKER!!! Outlaw of cyberspace!

To quote the Geto boys: "Damn it feels good to be a Gangsta!"

[da_chimperor]

1. It is a rather not nice thing to do.

I copy the images I use to my photobucket account, because i'm nice like that. :D

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Yeah, it's a problem of bandwidth

BW costs money. So when you hot link, you cost someone else money. Not a lot, mind you, but after a few thousand people are doing it to you...

[El Fuego]

3. Oh. I don't understand the technicalities of it.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Here's essentially how it works

For every byte of data you transfer from their servers to your computers, their Internet Service Provider charges them a fee. It's sort of like your electricity bill - for every watt, you're charged, say, 10 cents. Similarly, if you load a picture that is 10 MB from their server, they're charged a dollar (just an example figure). Now say there are hundreds of people accessing that picture. That's a hundred bucks, just from having one picture loaded. And then to add injury to insult, you're not even viewing the site - just that one picture. So they're paying for content you don't care about. That's why they get all hot and bothered.

[El Fuego]

7. Thanks for schooling me Vash!

I had no idea that was how the hot linking thing worked, I thought it was mostly only a copyright infringement issue. Now I know.

So, that means if I post this image from a GOP site, it costs them money? Cool!!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Now you've got the idea!

And a good one at that!! :evilgrin:

[DS1]

5. hahahahahaha

excellent

:thumbsup:

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. I'm a miscreant of cyberspace too

I also do it on occasion. F.U.H.L. is a tad rude in my opinion. It is just as easy to simply block the request.

But if you want to be a polite Fuego, open an account at photobucket.com. Then, when you see an image you want to use in a DU post, transfer it to your Photobucket photo-hosting space, and use the Photobucket URL instead of the original one. You can upload a photo from your computer, or copy the photo directory from the original host by supplying the URL.


Voila! Everyone happy.