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So all this is about is bandwidth and attribution?!? I mean aren't they sending their users to your web page? Other people would be glad if they would just have
by JepZ 8y ago
So all this is about is bandwidth and attribution?!? I mean aren't they sending their users to your web page? Other people would be glad if they would just have to pay the hosting costs for an image to get people on their page.
- Fjolsvith 8y agoSounds to me like theft.
- JepZ 8y agoYou mean like stealing someone's business cards in order to promote his company?
- justtopost 8y agoNo, like stealing bandwidth and services.
- Fjolsvith 8y agoIf you're taking the business cards and cutting the contact information off them and then handing them out, that's theft.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> mean aren't they sending their users to your web page? No, in this specific case, they are sending images from the page to users, bypassing the actual page. For a site where the user value was in the image and the monetization was elsewhere on the page, it's capturing the value of your work and bypassing the mechanism which pays you for that work. It may be legal, but even if so it is not sustainable.
- ryandrake 8y agoThis “linking vs hotlinking” distinction is pointless. It’s an image sitting at a URL. A browser can request that image and display it. If you don’t want people to view images you publish publicly, then don’t publish them or require authentication in order to request them.
- dwild 8y agoThey are showing the image. Did you read the post? There's no attribution, you wouldn't know at first glance it came from his website. Even the shortcut is only called "Guitar Chord Finder" and never mentions his website. You need to edit the shortcut to find it.