Am I a bandwidth thief?

[Cirque du So-What]

Several years ago, we were admonished not to post links to graphics embedded in webpages because it devoured available bandwidth. We were told to use links leading to video hosting sites instead. I had thousands of images on Photobucket, but they decided to ruin their terms of service. I have resumed the time-honored practice of hot-linking to images I find.

Am I an incorrigible criminal? I got burned once when the webpage owner substituted the image I linked with really gnarly porn. I don’t want anything embarrassing or illegal to happen. Did proliferation of high speed internet alleviate this problem?

[Laelth]

1. I hot-link when I can.

These days it’s hard to find a source link out there. Most images are imbedded.

-Laelth

[LiberalArkie]

2. A lot of times you can clink on a picture and the link will show up.

"https ://upload.democraticunderground.com/avatars/aca-obamacare.gif"

Take out that space and you get the full link to your avatar

[Fla Dem]

3. If you have a pc use your snipping tool to cut the picture. Save it to your picture file.

Then use a photo sharing site like postimage to get a link that will actually show up as a picture in your post.

https://postimages.org/

It is sooo easy.

1. Go to their page
2. Click on "Choose Image"
3. Open your picture file
4. Double Click on the picture you want
5. A new page will open on postimage
6. Copy the "Direct Link"
7. Paste the direct Link in your email, post, whatever.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Times have changed

If I remember correctly, early versions of Windows had optional features that would cut down on Internet use back in the days before widespread broadband.