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Can anyone tell me if it is possible to place a graphic on a website which
is held on another server?

Many thanks,

Noel

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Noel S Pamfree
<> spouted in alt.html:

> Can anyone tell me if it is possible to place a graphic on a website which
> is held on another server?

Yes. But unless you have permission from the other site to do so, it's
called hotlinking, and is bandwidth theft.

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> From: "Noel S Pamfree" <>

> Can anyone tell me if it is possible to place a graphic on a website which
> is held on another server?
>

If you run out of space on one server, sure, put images or
whatever on another. I do it all the time on servers that I have
permission to use. If you are talking someone else's images on
their website or server space, as Mark Parnell says....

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Mark Parnell wrote:

> Yes. But unless you have permission from the other site to do so, it's
> called hotlinking, and is bandwidth theft.

Nobody is "stealing" the bandwidth. If I choose to link to one of your
images using an IMG element and other people make requests to the image
because of my IMG element, then who is using your bandwidth.

You are. Because your webserver is sending out a large binary file. If you
don't want your bandwidth used up, then configure it to drop all
conections to port 80.

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Toby Inkster wrote:

> Mark Parnell wrote:
>
>> Yes. But unless you have permission from the other site to do so, it's
>> called hotlinking, and is bandwidth theft.
>
> Nobody is "stealing" the bandwidth. If I choose to link to one of your
> images using an IMG element and other people make requests to the image
> because of my IMG element, then who is using your bandwidth.
>
> You are. Because your webserver is sending out a large binary file. If you
> don't want your bandwidth used up, then configure it to drop all
> conections to port 80.

Sounds a bit like my neighbour is not stealing my electricity when he
taps into one of my outlets, because I'm the one who actually turned
on the electricity in my house?

Or maybe a better analogy - shop sells beer with the promotion: buy 5,
get the 6th free. Do you plead 'not guilty' when they bust you for
only taking the 6th, because it is free? I have pictures on my site
that I pay bandwidth for - they come for free to anyone visiting my
site. Not to anyone not visiting my site.

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"Els" <> skrev i meddelandet
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> Toby Inkster wrote:
>
> > Mark Parnell wrote:
>
> Or maybe a better analogy - shop sells beer with the promotion: buy 5,
> get the 6th free. Do you plead 'not guilty' when they bust you for
> only taking the 6th, because it is free? I have pictures on my site
> that I pay bandwidth for - they come for free to anyone visiting my
> site. Not to anyone not visiting my site.

That is what I was wondering about as much as it concerns Google´s strategy.
There is a chance that some users see a little image in Google´s image
section on one of Google´s pages without visiting the site in question where
the original images have been uploaded and come from.



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Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:

> "Els" <> skrev i meddelandet
> news...
>> Toby Inkster wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Parnell wrote:
>>
>> Or maybe a better analogy - shop sells beer with the promotion: buy 5,
>> get the 6th free. Do you plead 'not guilty' when they bust you for
>> only taking the 6th, because it is free? I have pictures on my site
>> that I pay bandwidth for - they come for free to anyone visiting my
>> site. Not to anyone not visiting my site.
>
> That is what I was wondering about as much as it concerns Google´s strategy.
> There is a chance that some users see a little image in Google´s image
> section on one of Google´s pages without visiting the site in question where
> the original images have been uploaded and come from.

That's entirely different. That's what brings me the most of my
visitors!

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"Els" <> skrev i meddelandet
news:ijp5vt3punnn$....
> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
>
> > "Els" <> skrev i meddelandet
> > news...
> >> Toby Inkster wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mark Parnell wrote:
> >>
> >> Or maybe a better analogy - shop sells beer with the promotion: buy 5,
> >> get the 6th free. Do you plead 'not guilty' when they bust you for
> >> only taking the 6th, because it is free? I have pictures on my site
> >> that I pay bandwidth for - they come for free to anyone visiting my
> >> site. Not to anyone not visiting my site.
> >
> > That is what I was wondering about as much as it concerns Google´s
strategy.
> > There is a chance that some users see a little image in Google´s image
> > section on one of Google´s pages without visiting the site in question
where
> > the original images have been uploaded and come from.
>
> That's entirely different. That's what brings me the most of my
> visitors!

Yet, you do not know how many see the small pictures without visiting your
site.

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Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:

> "Els" <> skrev i meddelandet
> news:ijp5vt3punnn$....
>> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
>>
>>> "Els" <> skrev i meddelandet
>>> news...
>>>> Toby Inkster wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mark Parnell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe a better analogy - shop sells beer with the promotion: buy 5,
>>>> get the 6th free. Do you plead 'not guilty' when they bust you for
>>>> only taking the 6th, because it is free? I have pictures on my site
>>>> that I pay bandwidth for - they come for free to anyone visiting my
>>>> site. Not to anyone not visiting my site.
>>>
>>> That is what I was wondering about as much as it concerns Google´s
> strategy.
>>> There is a chance that some users see a little image in Google´s image
>>> section on one of Google´s pages without visiting the site in question
> where
>>> the original images have been uploaded and come from.
>>
>> That's entirely different. That's what brings me the most of my
>> visitors!
>
> Yet, you do not know how many see the small pictures without visiting your
> site.

I don't mind. It doesn't cost me bandwidth, they're not full-size
pictures, and they bring me visitors. What's there to object??

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"Els" <> skrev i meddelandet
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> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
>
> > "Els" <> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:ijp5vt3punnn$....
> >> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> >
> > Yet, you do not know how many see the small pictures without visiting
your
> > site.
>
> I don't mind. It doesn't cost me bandwidth, they're not full-size
> pictures, and they bring me visitors. What's there to object??

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