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	hotlinking, copyrights, and Liquid Web - Liquid Web Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I have located an article on "smarter" hotlink protection, being a method which is supposed to prevent any bandwidth charges (other than the incoming server call, I suppose).
		Hotlinking can be "theft of services", but even that is a tough case to make.
		Hotlink protection blocks the hotlink attempt, and then the hotlink is quickly found out, due to the odd behaviour displayed in the log files.
	forums.liquidweb.com /showthread.php?t=544 (2205 words)

	How To Prevent Hotlinking With PHP
		Hotlinking is the act of one site embedding content (such as images, audio files, and videos) hosted on another site.
		Hotlinking can be prevented using the.htaccess file on an Apache web server, but cheaper web hosting packages often don't allow webmasters to change this file.
		Note that the content file itself will be cached, which means that if a site hotlinks to the file and a user already has the file in their cache they will still see it.
	www.safalra.com /programming/php/prevent-hotlinking (1085 words)

	The Risen Realm \| Hotlinking Tester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hotlinking is directly linking to a website's files (whether images, music, sounds, Flash movies, etc.).
		Hotlinking is usually done on images inside an tag.
		If you are a hotlinker, you can prevent yourself from getting into trouble by copying the file you want to use to your own web host or image host (there's a list of them on this website; visit Free Image Hosts on the left side).
	www.therisenrealm.com /?page=hotlinking (448 words)

	hotlinking help - SiteGround Web Hosting Provider Forum
		I need http://www.chaoticgaming.net/ to be allowed to hotlink and I want the http referer to be http://www.chaoticgaming.net/ and nothing else.
		Hotlinking is a way of stopping others accessing files/folders on your site via a link on their own site.
		Ye, I know there is a hotlinking thing in the Cpanel, but I know it would not do what you wanted it to do....oh well, guess its not as easy as it sounds to do.
	forum.siteground.com /showthread.php?p=670 (1313 words)

	Do you view hotlinking as copyright infringement? - WebHostingTalk Forums
		If they are hotlinking a product logo to use on their site ie cpanel, that's bandwidth theft...
		As for the copyright infringement: that mainly depends on what is being hotlinked, if you actually own the content then it would be copyright infringement but if it's just some random image which doesn't specifically belong to you, then it's no copyright infringement.
		I agree that it's relatively easy to stop hotlinking, but since it's technically impossible to stop outright theft of images, you would just encourage people to copy them onto their own servers.
	www.webhostingtalk.com /showthread.php?p=3956316 (789 words)

	The Blog From Another Dimension: Images, Hotlinking and Bandwidth
		Some people hotlink to images because they feel they have no choice, like Blogspot bloggers who can't upload images--or that is, they couldn't before, but now they can but haven't learned that yet.
		I tried to engage something called "hotlink prevention," which would prevent such bandwidth theft, but as a result, many people with some browsers were not able to see the images I put up on my own blog, so that had to go.
		The image was getting hotlinked more than 100 times a day because of this; at 20K a pop, that's 60 MB every month, just for that one photo.
	www.blogd.com /archives/001368.html (930 words)

	Your Guide to Preventing Image Hotlinking
		Image Hotlinking (also known as leeching, or inline linking) is the practice of stealing bandwidth from other websites, by linking to an image stored on another server.
		By doing this, when a person visits a website with hotlinked images, the images must be downloaded from the other server, costing that server bandwidth, instead of the server being visited.
		This method of prevent hotlinking however, it is expensive and time consuming, and won't necessarily prevent others from trying the same thing.
	www.imagehotlinking.com (638 words)

	Web Hosting by Active Web Hosting - What is Hotlinking and can I do this from my site? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hotlinking is when one site displays typically an image that is hosted on a different server or site than it's own.
		If you are using hotlinking to show images for an auction, such as eBay or for a banner or signature in a forum post, please be mindful of the file size.
		If you have images on your site and you think that people are displaying them on their site without your permission or knowledge, there are things you can do to find who is doing this and what you can do to prevent this from happening.
	www.activewebhosting.com /faq/web-hotlinking.html (370 words)

	Selective hotlinking prevention through .htaccess - jotsheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		You can block hotlinking of most of the images on your website, but allow certain directories to be hotlinked, since this can be useful for you (the website owner).
		Hotlinking is particularly a problem with the many forums and message boards on the Web that allow users to insert images.
		That is, often you’ll want to limit hotlinking from most of your images, but allow it on others, such as when you (the all-powerful website owner) want to hotlink images from your own site.
	underscorebleach.net /jotsheet/2004/06/htaccess-prevent-hotlinking (2044 words)

	» Defeating hotlinking - Marketing/Ecommerce Research
		Hotlinking has become a growing issue for site owners, much of it due to the increased popularity of social networks.
		The problem with this is that you’re the one footing the bill for the bandwidth and your server is carrying the load; not to mention that it’s also an infringement of your copyright.
		More often though, hotlinking is perpretrated by people who may be ignorant of the problem they are creating; i.e.
	www.tamingthebeast.net /blog/web-development/hotlinking-1006.htm (302 words)

	Hotlinking - Steps you can take to Prevent it.
		Perhaps the only way to keep the number of hotlinked images down is to make a habit of changing the names of the images that you are using on a fairly regular basis.
		It would be possible to write a script or program to do this for you, but unless hotlinking is a real problem that can not be dealt with more effectively in any other way then it could be a waste of time to develop one.
		However, when you move your images you are breaking the links on the hotlinker's site, and if they want to fix it they will have to do some work (and research if they are still intent on hotlinking your images) to fix the problem.
	websiteowner.info /articles/pages/hotlinking.asp (1004 words)

	Hotlinking and .htaccess files - a better way, but how? \| Gallery
		I want to implement hotlinking protection into Gallery's.htacess file in the method done by A List Apart in their excellent article on the subject.
		The magic is that if someone trys to hotlink your image, the image won't show up because the browser is expecting an image to be returned but instead of text/html file is returned.
		Hotlinking is prevented, but linking directly to a picture is allowed.
	gallery.menalto.com /node/48962 (868 words)

	Prevent hotlinking \| drupal.org
		And some people, believe it or not, want to maintain the spirit of the web (preventing image hotlinking is nothing more than a rabid Ticketmaster running around suing for deep links).
		Maybe they only need to impliment hotlinking for a few days while they transfered their data to a new hosting provider, and maybe they just hate leeches and left it up for the remainder of the site's existience.
		I think as a comprimise, there should be a hotlinking.txt file with a speach about how much you disagree with hotlinking, and then at the bottom, have this snippet of code.
	drupal.org /node/24963 (1011 words)

	Hotlinking Prevention... Even without a referer!
		Hotlinking [1] [2] [3] images is a common problem for many websites.
		Hotlinking is essentially stealing bandwidth from the server that is hosting the image.
		This means that any hotlinked image will break in less than 2 minutes.
	concepts.waetech.com /hotlinking (404 words)

	A List Apart: Articles: Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention
		If a 100K JPEG is hotlinked on a site that gets, say, 1,000 hits a day, that’s 100MB of data transferred from your site without a single person actually visiting your site.
		The trouble is that the usual approaches for preventing hotlinking have a couple of side effects.
		A second approach is to redirect off-site traffic to an alternate image — either a general “hotlinking denied” image, or (in the case of some mischievous webmasters) something more shocking.
	www.alistapart.com /articles/hotlinking (1271 words)

	SeanPAune.com » Blog Archive » Hotlinking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		When you sign up for webhosting, you are given a set amount of space to store your files, you are also given a set amount of bandwidth which is the amount of data you may transfer.
		So, when someone hotlinks your image, they are using your bandwidth, which is essentially stealing from you.
		I am sure a lot of this is plain old laziness and people not knowing better, but it still irritates me. And in a lot of cases, if people just asked to use an image of mine, I would say yes, but doing it without permission is just low, and is the same as theft.
	seanpaune.com /?p=664 (543 words)

	Wolverine & Rogue
		Note: Our hotlinking problems have been solved, which makes this page pretty useless, but I've decided to leave it up due to the large number of people who link to it as a reference.
		Hotlinking is not only bad netiquette, it's theft.
		Hotlinking is linking to an image on someone else's server.
	www.wolverineandrogue.com /hotlink.html (768 words)

	Definition: Hotlinking (hot linking)
		"Hotlinking" (also called "hot linking", "leeching", and "bandwidth theft") is a term referring to when a web page of one website owner is direct linking to the images or other multimedia files on the web host of another website owner (usually without permission, thus stealing bandwidth).
		The term is also used loosely (a misnomer) by free image hosts which allow you to store images on their server and allow you to direct link the hosted image files on forums or other websites (sometimes altering the image to have a watermark).
		Common methods of preventing hotlinking are by using an.htaccess file, using the "Hotlink Protection" offered in control panels such as Cpanel, or simply renaming image files periodically.
	www.free-webhosts.com /definition/hotlinking.php (219 words)

	hotlinking \| illegal
		Hotlinking is when you take a picture graphic copy and paste information etc....
		To get in on the page you want it on, go to that page and go to edit paragraph and you will have choices and click the image one and your files will come up and select which ever one you want and place it where you want.
		You know that your hotlinking if you copy and paste an image or anything from another site without permission or giving credit.
	www.freewebs.com /hotlinking/whatishotlinking.htm (292 words)

	Hotlinking issues - protecting your images and bandwidth
		Hotlinking of images and flash objects is becoming an increasing problem for many webmasters and site owners, especially given the recent explosion in popularity of social networking services.
		Hotlinking, aka inline linking, is the practice of displaying a file such as an image or flash object on a page that is stored on another site.
		Probably the best example of legitimate hotlinking can be found on YouTube; where on each video linking code is also provided for the easy implementation and display of the video on user profiles and web sites external to the service.
	www.tamingthebeast.net /articles6/hotlinking-protection.htm (1786 words)

	Hotlinking aka Direct Linking
		Hotlinking is if the picture is fetched from someone elses website instead.
		This means that the owner of www.ooooo.com is billed for the traffic each time someone views the picture on www.aaaaa.com - and that is very close to stealing - making someone else bear the expense for showing the picture on a website not his own.
		Try to contact the webmaster, write in the guestbook, write to the forum and ask that they stop hotlinking, wait a few days and see if they stop.
	www.afan.dk /hotlink (613 words)

	Hotlinking is bad \| GRIMTHING.COM
		Hotlinking is when a someone uses the img tag to include an image on their website from another server.
		Hotlinking may be IP theft.-As is in the case of my wife’s site.
		Hotlinking may have unpredictable results.-When you hotlink someone else’s images, you are at their mercy.
	grimthing.com /archives/2004/04/02/hotlinking-is-bad (683 words)

	Preventing hotlinking - DreamHost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hotlinking occurs when a website directly accesses, rather than links to, a resource (such as an image, or a video) on a remote site.
		Unless the remote site has some form of restriction in place, the browser visiting the site will render the remote resource as if it were part of the original site.
		This article presents possible methods of preventing this kind of activity; however, hotlinking has advantages as well as disadvantages, and both are addressed in a sister article.
	wiki.dreamhost.com /index.php/Preventing_hotlinking (660 words)

	Better image hotlinking control (padawan.info)
		Later this week I resorted to use this htaccess technique to prevent image hotlinking.
		Sophie left me a comment with a better alternative, which consists of specifically blocking the offenders rather than flat out refuse all image hotlinking.
		This is true, it does need a bit of inspection to find the vilains, but blocking all hotlinking now seems to me an over reaction.
	www.padawan.info /weblog/better_image_hotlinking_control.html (271 words)

	Geek On The Mountain » Blog Archive » Stopping Hotlinking
		Hotlinking is a nasty thing to do to someone.
		Hotlinking is when you link directly to someone else’s file and display it on your site.
		Sometimes people are called hotlinkers because they host their images on Photobucket/Imageshac and “prof” webmasters who do not know these services think that they are hotlinking without permition - stealing.
	www.slaad.com /2005/05/28/stopping-hotlinking (4128 words)

	Inline linking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inline linking, also known as hotlinking, leeching, or direct linking is the placing of a linked object, often an image, from one site in a web page belonging to a second site.
		As a result, some servers are programmed to use the HTTP referer to detect hot-linking, and return a condemnatory message (usually in the same format) in place of the expected image or media clip.
		Some other forms of hotlinking also include video files, music (or mp3) files, animations (such as flash), and just about every other form of media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hotlinking (492 words)

	Static8 Hotlinking is Bad
		The forum thread will be deleted and the hotlinker may be banned from the web accounts he/she is using.
		Since hotlinkers are linking to files on someone else's web site, they have absolutely no control over the content...
		Hotlinking is illegal and the person who posted this image is a criminal!
	www.static8.com /hotlink.html (493 words)

	Hotlinking and Bandwidth Theft - What is it?
		This page is aimed mostly at new web designers who may not yet understand why hotlinking causes harm and may not know what bandwidth leaching is. Find out why it's wrong and simple ways anyone can avoid remote linking.
		Hotlinking, inline linking, remote linking and many other terms are used to describe a way taking images, or other files and embedding it directly into a website.
		Replace it with a notice that hotlinking is not allowed and an advertisement for their own website.
	www.webweaver.nu /html-tips/hotlinking.shtml (893 words)

	Web Hosting by Active Web Hosting - How To Prevent Hotlinking From Your Site
		One of the biggest concerns of webmasters, particularly those who distribute their own artwork or images, is hotlinking.
		Hotlinking occurs when someone links to your image from another web site without your permission.
		As a result, hotlinking is also sometimes referred to as bandwidth theft.
	www.activewebhosting.com /faq/web-hotlinkprevent.html (1699 words)

	James Wages' Web Design Site
		Note that hotlinking is not the simple placing of a URL link on your webpages.
		One negative consequence of hotlinking is that the source file often disappears or is modified from the original format.
		Hotlinking is acceptable if you have the permission of the host server who provides the content you wish to use.
	www.kiramek.com /webdesign (1116 words)

	Preventing image hotlinking: An improved tutorial - jotsheet
		A few months ago, I wrote up a little tutorial on stopping hotlinking (or hot-linking, also known as bandwidth theft) called Selective hotlinking prevention through.htaccess”>”Selective hotlinking prevention through.htaccess.” The idea was simple: prevent random users from stealing bandwidth while allowing defined directories to be hotlinked, e.g.
		The regular expressions used to defeat hotlinking are (hopefully!) as efficient as possible.
		You’ve probably noticed that many webmasters choose to redirect hotlinked images to something funny or intentionally offensive, or simply to drop the request at the Web server level (accomplished with the “F” [forbidden] flag).
	underscorebleach.net /jotsheet/2004/11/stop-image-hotlinking-tutorial-htaccess-apache (1652 words)

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