Earlier today, I noticed that one of the images hosted on my site had been pulled into another website as a hotlink. While I have never claimed ownership of the images or content of my website and have previously encouraged the replication of content, which has been embraced by many local bloggers, for eg. iMod, who understands common courteousy and has linked back to the article given credit were it was due. The original article about Seacom can be found here.
What I do have a problem with though, is the blatant disregard for common courteousy and these guys (who don’t deserve the link) not hosting their own images and the fact that they chose to hotlink my image without my permission.
This is a screenshot of what the article looked like with my hotlinked image:
This a screenshot of what the article looked like after I decided to change the image after some encouragement from ChrisM:
Don’t hotlink images without permission, its just plain rude!
See the iMod article here: Careful when you steal web content
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November 4th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
You’re a better man than me, I would have changed the image to donkey porn
November 4th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
@Onelargeprawn – Sadly, I’m not that kinda guy mate! But I get that I could have and should have a bit more harsh.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Bro, you so shld hv hot linked those images from my site! Haha
November 4th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
@Chris – I seriously thought about it and laughed with myself for a while when I was putting this post together. :p
November 4th, 2009 at 6:15 pm