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| | About linking to Something Awful - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The Something Awful server detects the referring page, and it it isn't on somethingawful.com, the image you were linking gets replaced with an image that, were you to post it intentionally, will get you banned. |
 | | Bandwidth often costs people money, and linking images directly from someone's website to these forums could cost them a lot of money, or in the case of limited bandwidth hosts like geocities, knock their site completely off the internet. |
 | | Of course, the more tech savvy people might spot you wasting their bandwidth in their referrer logs, and do a switch and rename - ie they replace the image you're leeching with something else (like goatse, huge.jpg or something else) and rename the old image on their own site something different. |
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