[ random | Bandwidth Theft ]
As of late, I have been searching through various sites and finding images and various other bits being direct linked from this website. This is known as bandwidth theft. It is a crime, it's ILLEGAL, and it will not be tolerated.
This page will tell you a bit about bandwidth theft and what makes it so wrong.
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What is Stealing Bandwidth?
There are many forms of bandwidth stealing on the web today. However, the bandwidth theft PhenomenalWomen.com is focusing on here is image/graphic stealing, and is the bandwidth theft that occurs most. That is when you find an image you like and you are:
1. are too cheap to have server space of your own to use -and/or-
2. are too lazy to upload the image to your own server -and/or-
3. are uneducated about the crime you are committing -or all of the above-
Crime? Yes, it is a crime. The person whose site the image is on that you are linking to for the source of the image is paying to display their image on your site.
Basically, it boils down to this. It is a crime. I will kick your arse if you direct link my images. And no, don't think I won't find out, because we will. My webstats give me a nice long list of all the sites that do it.
Thankyou.