Image Hotlinking

Remote image linking (hotlinking) is the placing of a linked object, usually an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. In the context of MAP, this means when a picture’s URL is put into MAP’s IMG tags and it comes up like this rather than as an attached image



This practice leeches bandwidth from the original site. Some sites have started to protect against hotlinking by changing the picture along the way, to a pornographic image, or something else. As such, we ask that members no longer use remote image linking from the originating site and instead upload to a free online image host such as

http://photobucket.com/

http://imageshack.us/

http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/

http://tinypic.com/

To use this, simply save the image you want to link to to your hard drive, upload it to your host of choice (some need you to register for a free account) and copy the URL from there. This will keep everyone happy

Any questions about this, feel free to PM me about it

 

Just an update on this:

Any further hotlinked images will be removed. If you want to re-post them when they're hosted on Photobucket or something, fine, but any hotlinked images will be gone as soon as we see them
If there are any questions about this, don't hesitate to PM either me or another GM/ Admin

Cheers