Bandwith thievery in forums?

bloodpack · 10-19-2003, 03:47 AM

i know most of the web masters here know about this bandwith thing

recently while surfing the net, i stumbled upon a site about like a crusade to stop bandwith thiefing/stealing

from my own understanding, the owner of the site loses some of his reserved megs when some jerk took the source code from his website, like when you get the url of a pic/jpeg then you linked it to your own site without downloading THAT pic into your own directory

its like youre trying to save your own reserved megs by using others (i would appreciate if someone can elaborate this further)

now what puzzles me is whenever we ask for a tag/banner,
sometimes we put the urls of those gifs directly from their source directly to our forums

i want to know if like, PX forum eats the innocent bandwith of these source sites with those pics? if so, then i think there should be a new rule like to have these pics/jpegs under our own hosting account to save those innocent source sites bandwiths

can someone clear this up for me?

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10-19-2003, 03:47 AM	#1
bloodpack Senior Member Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Philippines Posts: 1,706 Post Thanks / Like Thanks (Given): 0 Thanks (Received): 0 Likes (Given): 0 Likes (Received): 0 Dislikes (Given): 0 Dislikes (Received): 0 Points: 0 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)	i know most of the web masters here know about this bandwith thing recently while surfing the net, i stumbled upon a site about like a crusade to stop bandwith thiefing/stealing from my own understanding, the owner of the site loses some of his reserved megs when some jerk took the source code from his website, like when you get the url of a pic/jpeg then you linked it to your own site without downloading THAT pic into your own directory its like youre trying to save your own reserved megs by using others (i would appreciate if someone can elaborate this further) now what puzzles me is whenever we ask for a tag/banner, sometimes we put the urls of those gifs directly from their source directly to our forums i want to know if like, PX forum eats the innocent bandwith of these source sites with those pics? if so, then i think there should be a new rule like to have these pics/jpegs under our own hosting account to save those innocent source sites bandwiths can someone clear this up for me?