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Title: Hotlinking
Post by: winbindd on March 10, 2004, 08:52:36 pm

Hello All:
I have been just as busy as Cmonkey lately, and have found little time to check the forums and such. However, was looking over a few things and saw that a few nasty people were stealing images right off of the SpongeZone webserver, which was helping to run Cmonkey out of bandwith. I figured I would give him a hand, so we have done our best to make hotlinking very difficult with certain images.
Remember: If you want to use a picture: 1)Ask Cmonkey 2) Copy it to your own server/website hosting.
Doing those two things will help the SpongeZone and keep everyone happy. Overall, I have also cleaned up a few things to further increase your SpongeZone viewing pleasure, and things should be running a bit smoother. Please let us know if you experience any oddities with the main page.  :blink:
 

Title: Hotlinking
Post by: SpongeQueen on March 11, 2004, 07:16:07 am

Well allrighty then I understand that completely and wont be taking any pic from here :blink:  

Title: Hotlinking
Post by: Bubble Buddy on March 11, 2004, 12:41:58 pm

Yeah, Hotlinking probably uses a ton of bandwidth.. :blink:  

Title: Hotlinking
Post by: winbindd on March 11, 2004, 07:47:31 pm

Not really meant to be a threat or anything, But when people take images right off SpongeZone without permission or without copying them to their own server, it does use alot of bandwith. Because of that measures have to be taken to conserve the bandwith, like having to temporarily take down the videos last month; Cmonkey and I are trying to prevent things like that from ever happening again.
So, cheers:
~Compbrain

Title: Hotlinking
Post by: spongemonkey13 on March 12, 2004, 04:54:42 am

how do u take pics directly from here anyways.

Title: Hotlinking
Post by: Hannahbal on March 12, 2004, 07:35:19 am

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how do u take pics directly from here anyways.

You use the image address (www.whatever.com/blah/blah.jpg) and put it on your own website. This causes the bandwidth to go up.

Title: Hotlinking
Post by: etab on March 12, 2004, 06:43:08 pm

Nice, Hannah. Tell everyone how to do it.  :biggrin:  

Title: Hotlinking
Post by: Hannahbal on March 13, 2004, 08:49:59 am

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Nice, Hannah. Tell everyone how to do it.  :biggrin:

I realized that after I posted it..

But I'm actually showing people what it is...so they won't do it. Yea.