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Enough is Enough – hot-linking is wrong, folks.

March 27, 2008

I was really surprised to find out how much of my bandwidth was being stolen. Yes – stolen.
When you hot-link to an image on someone else’s site you are, in effect, stealing their bandwidth.
Last month I had 632 MB of bandwidth stolen from just one server.
Wikipedia defines Hot-Linking as:
Inline linking (also known as [...]

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