Are you hotlinking from us? Â Then I suspect you will be familiar with this photo:
For those who don’t know what hotlinking is – here’s a simple explanation from Wikipedia:
“Hot-linking is a term used on the Internet. Hot-linking is when someone uses a link to an image that is saved on another website instead of saving a copy of the image on the website that the picture will be shown on. For example, instead of saving picture.gif and loading it on to their own website, the person uses a link to the picture as http://website.com/picture.gif. Hot-linking uses the bandwidth of the person who owns the website where the picture is stored. This costs that person money.”
So if you DON’T want to be embarassed by having the above pic all over your forums/blogs/sites – then I suggest you “right click and save” any photos that you want to post from RPAU. Â That’s why we don’t disable “right click & save” – so that Rob can be shared and enjoyed, but our paid bandwidth well that’s not for sharing because that’s just plain stealing.
That is all.
Ya’ll better hurry up and fix or delete all your archives! We can see you. mwahahahaha!
Nice job M&M’s and why should you have to pay for their thieving ways. *thumbs up* and *waves* to Rob. Great pic choice.
IKR @Vertigo – I don’t think they realise we know exactly who has hotlinked and which pics/posts they have hotlinked too. It’s great that we are now notified.
One,two Maria,Michelle & Vertigo are comin for you!! three, four better lock the door…. ya thieven swines!!
Go get em girls!!! Thieving is thieving no matter how you dress it up.
That is it @Vicky and it’s amazing how many not only hotlink but then don’t bother to source us for the pics. We are watching – be afraid – be very afraid.
Hehehe, we really have our eye on you now everyone (or I should say Rob does!)
Thieves – grrrr not a fan of them – not at all!!
Rob would not approve. No one approves.
I applaud your choice of hotlink busting rob! 😀
Mel – thanks so much for letting us know about this. Michelle chose the pic and I agree – it’s perfection. I can’t even begin to tell you how many hotlinkers we’ve been notified of since this afternoon. PictPocket is amazeballs – hahaha! *mwah*
Thank you SO much Mel – really appreciate the tip. Glad you like the Rob pic. I thought it was perfect too 🙂 As Maria said, the amount of Hotlinkers we’ve had since this afternoon is absolutely INSANE. I could not believe it!!
It’s the best! Really surprising how many thieves are out there – craziness. Go and upload them like the rest of us, takes time and thought yes, but then your conscience can rest easy.
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I hope i’m doing right……I don’t want to be a thieve…..I’m sure I never use a hotlink…..but now I’m wondering… please, if I am one of those doing something wrong…..let me know…..
I’m sure you’re doing it fine minette. As long as you right click & save to your computer, usb etc – there is no probs 😀
thanks @minette – don’t think it’s you – haven’t seen your email come up, but will definitely let you know.
I’d say that’s the simplest and best explanation Michelle. To save to your computer or devices.
thanks, very much……
I never knew what hotlinking was before this and i am glad that you are being notified and that you know who is doing it. Theft will not be tolerated!!! I just hope that there is something you guys can do to stop it from happening? And yes i agree with all of you – the picture Michelle chose is P-E-R-F-E-C-T.
Go get em girls! Don’t mess with the M&M’s cos they will mess right back with ya!