Only problem with this is, if people don't hotlink, the only other option they have to share the vids / pics etc they want to take is to reupload them to another storage space. Which is whats happening with the likes of youtube, myspace, fotobucket or what ever its called to name but a few. When someone does this all credit usually goes completely. Apart from those pics that some of us have had to resize and watermark to make them less easy to steal. All of which takes a hell of a lot of time. At least with hotlinking as radiomaster said, you can tell who's it is lol.

Another option with videos, is to have to put a watermark on those. which also is time consuming and hard.

it's sad that some have to resort to doing this extra work to stop others stealing :-(

Deb

Sure. To get an image on a forum or website that image needs to be somewhere. Your options are:

1 - Upload to the forum or website
2 - Upload to somewhere else (e.g. photobucket) and link to that
3 - Link directly to wherever you found the image (this is hot-linking)

#3 is the problem. It's also the easiest to do. People do it because it's easy and/or they don't understand what's wrong with it.

What happens with hot-linking is that when the image is viewed the browser goes to the original web site that holds the image and gets it from there. So a page of messages on this forum is very often made up of images from lots of different web sites. This slows down the loading of the page (a bit, since your PC has to look up the address of each web site holding an image) and also puts the original web site servers to work to get the image for you.

Everyone who runs a web site gets a certain amount of bandwidth (a certain amount of data that can be uploaded and/or downloaded per month). When that limit is exceeded they either get charged more money or, if it's a free site, the site gets closed down till the end of the month. Neither option is good. This is why web site owners get hacked off that their bandwidth is being stolen.

Dave

A Steinfan being kind and sharing :shock: WTF? when did this happen? :faint:

Pud :twisted:

Yeah, I've been feeling kinda strange lately. Normal (lack of) service will be resumed as soon as possible :twisted:

lol, Yes the kind Steinfan is Dave :D

We will add something to the forum rules with some explanations and a link to this thread, but I don't think it will really help.

Thank you R, much appreciated :-)

Yeah, just give me some time to check the 5000 posts that piled up during my short vacation. :tard:

Oke, my english is not always so good that i understand everything you guys write down.

If i am correct: you ask permission to use peoples personal photo's, films what ever to use on youre website, you tube or anything like that

I may use photo's from Kasim's site as an avator... well here i miss something: the avator that i had, was Kasims personall photo. I did not ask for permission to use it as an avator, so i stole... i think? i did ask permession to use that photo for a t-shirt for personal use.

Photo's post here who are not personal from Meat, you don't need to ask permission :??: :??: well i lost it here, so i would be really happy if this handbook will be made. Because i really dont want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Lol when you put it like that it is confusing :-)

All I can say is I don't want any of my videos ending up on youtube full stop :-)

So yep, I think we def need a handbook of some sorts. In easy to understand format as well lol

Deb

Sunneke, feel free to ask about all this in dutch ;)

thank you Ankie, perhaps you can translate the rules for me? i would be very glad to know how it works