Photos, pics, whatever...
A lot of websites don't like this. People link up their photos and eat up their bandwidth. Then they make a big deal sometimes about people "stealing" their photos and linking them without permission onto other websites (like this one

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I think it's stupid. And by "it" I mean complaining about it. As someone who's a web designer I figure it's just a fact of the internet. There's nothing unethical about linking something you find in a public place (the internet) somewhere else as long as you don't take credit for it, aren't purposefully killing their bandwidth and it's not something like a Comic book which is out there for the money (stealing)!
A lot of websites try to protect from it and largely fail. I say stop trying. If it's online it's fair game.
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if people dont like it they should not leave their pictures all over my internet connection.:rolleyes:
However, most of said images are extremely hard to find on the page their embedded in....
Deep link? Now there is some lexicon I am unfamiliar with. I use FireFox so I can right click the image and select "View Image" to only post the image. If that is a foul I would like to know.
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I use firefox too, so you can simply right click the image and click "copy image location". Dummy.
"Deep Link" means you're imbedding the image without linking the site (i.e. bypassing the page it's on)
Usually that doesn't stop copying and pasting the URL, but it will prevent image hotlinking (and is amusing because for the person doing the linking, the image is still cached so they have no idea that everyone else is seeing the "stop being a cheap *******" gif that the originating website has set up for hotlinks.
At the same token, the idea of "if it's online it's fair game" is flawed, because that will only encourage people to not put things online. And then where would you be? Sad and unable to view images, that's where.
Ima bad boy. Go ahead and skip to the seven second mark.
If I link to a picture on a site, I am linking to the picture and not downloading it to use myself. In effect, I am keeping to copyright laws by not stealing the picture and putting it on Imageshack or whatever. Anyone who complains about that should stay away from anything considered public domain like the internet. It's like putting a picture on your shop window in the high street and then complaining that people are stopping to look at it and causing congestion on the sidewalk.
If I see a funny or relevant picture on your site, the link I put is still to your site. If anyone viewing becomes interested, they can erase the tree and load the index page of your site. If you are selling stuff, you got a free advert for your site from me, what's your problem? If you are really paranoid, you can always put a discrete url on the picture so anyone viewing it will see where it's from.