linking to pic=stealing bandwidth?

[OS]

I posted a link to a pic here like yesterday and then today I get an email from some guy bitching that I'm stealing his bandwidth? I found the picture on another website's PUBLIC forum and was too lazy to upload the picture to my own host. I dunno, when you host a pic on HTTP, don't you more or less lose the right to bitch about people stealing your bandwidth?

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

<< I dunno, when you host a pic on HTTP, don't you more or less lose the right to bitch about people stealing your bandwidth? >>

No, not really. But some other folks on eBay with the same sort of thinking have met with some unusual results

 

[monto]

well if it's a paid-for hosting service, and there's like a 3gb limit, perhaps it's not intended for the entire WWW public, perhaps just those the owner decides to notify?

 

[OS]

<< perhaps it's not intended for the entire WWW public, perhaps just those the owner decides to notify >>



Well right, but I found the link on another public forum also. So what's the difference?

 

[Pretender]

that's funny, usually people bitch when someone steals a pic, puts it on his own server, and doesn't acknowledge the source.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Well, there is a difference between acknowledging the source, and actually linking to the source.

 

[cherrytwist]

If it's on another public forum, I don't see why he's got his panties in a bind.

/me searches for OuterSquare's other thread ISO the pic in question

 

[OS]

<< /me searches for OuterSquare's other thread ISO the pic in question >>



Don't bother, it was just some stupid pic of a chick/mockery of a mac

 

[brtspears2]

Since I host some pics for a friend of mine that has a page on asianavenue.com, i know that there will me massive linking to images from my server...

I dont even bother telling the people that are sucking my server dry. I just change the filenames on the server, change the old images with interesting pics from various pr0n/gross sites, and change the code on my friend's page.

Hilarous. But usually, they go back and link back to the new image. *sigh*