HOTLINKING to images on this site

[EG]

I've taken an image hosted on my daughter's free web site and pasted it to this site...is that ok ...(is starting to panic now) erm... If I've done something wrong it isn't intentional

thats fine dont worry.  Your daughter gave her permission no doubt, and the site is free

However if for instance, you daughter put the stars from this site on hers, but kept the urls of the stars as www.lotruk.com etc.... then that would be stealing our bandwidth, which LOTRUK pays for.  It isnt illegal, but it is lazy and inconsiderate!

[Unebriwen]

One thing I must say, EG, is that a lot of people are rather ignorant when it comes to things like this. I, for example, took many a month to understand what what right/wrong on here, and it took me along time to even figure out what hotlinking was (though it's been over a year since I figured it out, lol), so perhaps we should put something in the FAQ about it? Not that anyone ever reads the FAQs anyhow

[EG]

yeah good idea

[Mojo Toner]

It's kinda Dumb, think about it, if u copy lets say someone with 2 stars and then their star rating goes to three, ur 2 star pic is gone and has been replaced with a 3, which no doubt u already a copy of. If i wanted to do this I would save the pics to my own comp first.

[EG]

very sensible

actually there arent two star and three star images... just one star image, which finds friends

[Waelith]

If you want stars, the best people to ask are Jezz and Une. They are brilliant for that sort of thing, and I am sure they will help you out if you ask them nicely.

[Unebriwen]

lol, brilliant? I think not Perhaps not me, anyhow Jezz is awesome at that stuff, though *pokes at Jezz* But anyways, I think ppl get the picture now. For the mean time I'm locking this and putting it back as a sticky topic, perhaps if there are things a mod would wish to subtract from this topic and put into the FAQs, um, well, here you go

[GG]

Ive no problem with people using the stars from this place, or other images, providing they get permission from their makers first.,

but I do have a problem with stealing our bandwidth

Ages ago I hooked you up with an htaccess file that prevented image-linking to any subdirectories in the htaccess-protected directory.

If you want, I can find it again for you and send it along.

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