I managed to trace two of the hot-linked photos to the Mesra.net forum:
And I checked to see if the Haduri gifs had really been hotlinked from me, and they were:
Westkitsune also found out another site that hotlinked my photos, xietinloveshero:
Sure enough, there's the evidence:
I don't know if this was done deliberately or out of sheer ignorance. Hotlinking is rude and disrespectful, plain and simple.
For people who plan to take out information out of this blog, thank you for including the full credits, but please also, learn what hotlinking is all about:
What is hotlinking and bandwidth theft?
Bandwidth theft or "hotlinking" is direct linking to a web site's files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an <> tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own site, eBay auction listing, weblog, forum message post, etc.Bandwidth refers to the amount of data transferred from a web site to a user's computer. When you view a web page, you are using that site's bandwidth to display the files. Since web hosts charge based on the amount of data transferred, bandwidth is an issue. If a site is over its monthly bandwidth, it's billed for the extra data or taken offline.
A simple analogy for bandwidth theft: Imagine a random stranger plugging into your electrical outlets, using your electricity without your consent, and you paying for it.
How Do I know I am hotlinking?
This is how you might display an image graphic file in the HTML on your own web page:< src="image.jpg" height="350" width="200">
This tag tells the site to request the file image.jpg on the same server as the rest of the files on the site. If you were to hotlink an image from an outside server, the HTML might look like this:
< src="http://notmysite.com/image.jpg" height="350" width="200">
This tag tells the site to request the image.jpg from a different server other than your own. Every time the page is loaded, the outside server has to use its bandwidth to display the image. To avoid this problem, don't link to files on servers that don't belong to you. To share images and files on your own web page, upload them to your own server's directory or to a free image hosting service that allows direct linking.
Information from: http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html
The moral of the story is: save the pic you like, upload it to your own server, then use that to post on your blog/forum/site. Simple as ho!pie.
5 comments:
sorry about your hotlinking problem... people never learn -_-'''
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa T_____________T *hugs mitz unnie* this is all so blah T___T
Ahh, I am a lurker until now ^^ I would like to thank you for keeping all of us updated with the latest news on our boys. I have money to spare, so please accept my gift of 3 months Pro Photobucket account ^^; It has unlimited bandwidth, which it looks like you could use now XD;
Just promise to keep bringing on the news! :D
seriously, hotlinking is NOT good ! >:[ I've never done it before cuz I know it's not good cuz everytime when i went to forums, the post-ers always said "DO NOT HOTLINK!!" so i can imagine how u feel ate.
i hope those pple will learn & repent =]
take care unnie ^^ i hope u'll share the news again when ur mood is okay ^^
<3Sarah~
@shikonira~
Can I cry on your shoulder? ;__;
Thank you. This is the first time anyone has ever done something like this for me. I LOVE YOU. Thank you so much. I'm really grateful for you going out of your way like this. ;_;
I promise to keep on bringing the news! ^____^
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