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+447|7065|Seattle, Washington, USA

ExecutionerStyle wrote:

Wouldn't changing the image to be porn if it's hotlinked be a violation of the law? You can't provide porn to minors, and you have to give a warning that it is porn. If there is no warning and it does that, then the site itself is violating the law...
ExecutionerStyle=Intelligent.
BolvisOculus
Spagett!
+167|6836|Manitowoc, WI
I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal.  After you post it, check your post, which you probably do anyway.  If it's inappropriate, then edit, delete your post.  So it's there for like 4 seconds.  I highly doubt that someone is going to see it in that time.

And if they do then I have a question, Would you get banned if you picture is up for, like I said, about 4 seconds, and then it's deleted.  I realize that thinking objectively, then yes it would, but would anyone actually ban a picture being there for that short of time?
JL
Member
+2|6800
ok, so i didn't read all 3 pages, honestly i got to the bottom of page 1 and saw the quick post box, so.. basically webmasters can be dicks and review their logs to see who is hot linking to their images and stealing their bandwidth, then upload an image in the place of the url that you had already linked to of something like, hidethearm, goatse, lemonparty, tubgirl, etc.
blademaster
I'm moving to Brazil
+2,075|6862

markkos wrote:

Lol you want to post a pic of a kitten a. e. and then there comes some hardcore p*rn?
that would be so funny lol
blademaster
I'm moving to Brazil
+2,075|6862

PoP wrote:

i suggest u ban the people with the link to the "BF2 reactions game" in their sig, u know the maze one, when u hit the walls the birg scary mofo face comes up. I shit myself.
yeah I remember lol
EricTViking
Yes, I am Queeg
+48|6769|UK

JL wrote:

so.. basically webmasters can be dicks and review their logs to see who is hot linking to their images and stealing their bandwidth
As a webmaster you'd be an even bigger dick not to review your logs.

Christ, you just can't get the staff these days.
Rogue_Delta
Member
+6|6673
Yes, Sir! that's some sweeeeet exploit tho... :-D
pab.wayniac
Member
+0|6640
rgr that:D
pab.wayniac
Member
+0|6640
lmao just another exploit
t2krambo
Banned
+99|6745|Panama
Roger That!
Z-trooper
BF2s' little helper
+209|6976|Denmark
No pr0n?! how will we ever survive?
^*AlphA*^
F*ckers
+3,135|6956|The Hague, Netherlands

Z-trooper wrote:

No pr0n?! how will we ever survive?
google
https://bf3s.com/sigs/36eac2cb6af70a43508fd8d1c93d3201f4e23435.png
Viper007Bond
Moderator Emeritus
+236|7023|Portland, OR, USA

To test to see if an image is hotlinked, post it, then hit control + F5 (hard refresh). This will reload the image from the site (rather than your cache) and you can see what everyone else sees (usually).

Then just make sure to delete/edit your post if the image results in a non-allowed hotlinking image.

-Viper
https://bf3s.com/sigs/044900892044e7fc95e599e832a086ae9bcd7efb.png
NooBesT
Pizzahitler
+873|6686

Well... Not pr0n!
That should keep you busy for a while.
https://i.imgur.com/S9bg2.png
Black Vaine
Member
+43|6839|K-Town, Sweden
Porn is cool
-Solv3r-
Heia den som vinner!
+115|6775|Oslo, Norway

Superior Mind wrote:

lol i learned the hard way .
Tjasso
the "Commander"
+102|6740|the Netherlands
Roger That
spon
Member
+2|7061|San Jose, CA
I don't replace hotlink'd pictures with porn.  I prefer the 1 px by 1000px image that matches the background. So when people come to the site theire like, "why is this page all messedup?" or "what's with the blank space onhe webpage?"

I did find one lesbian who was hot linking.  So I replaced the picture with a picture with text "I lied, I like dick"
Safe to say the hotlink was gone in 2 days.
repins_bib
Member
+0|6639
Ok I read enough.  For those who seem to understand hotlinking, please explain how checking your post right after you submit it will prevent a webmaster from changing the picture at a later date???  It doesn't...so that's not a solution.

Fortunately I've never really had to deal with hotlinkers myself (1 exception below), but why do some of you say webmasters are dicks for responding in such a way?  It's theft people, whether you want to accept it or not.  The only pseudo hotlinking I've had to deal with was yahoo image search directly linking to pictures which caused my bandwidth to go from a measly avg 100 MB a month (yes it's a personal site with almost no traffic) to something like 5 GB of data in less than a week!  I had to take my site down to keep it from going over the limit and thus costing me more money that I had already paid for the month. 

If I found individuals (or businesses) hotlinking to pictures on my site, then frankly they open themselves up to it and deserve it.  No different than if they took money right out of my wallet.
TrollmeaT
Aspiring Objectivist
+492|6890|Colorado
Real sites deny you from the get go if its an issue for them, which is how all of them should be.
FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6908|Devon, England
getting permission from a site everytime you post a picture sucks a wee bit, but i supose it's worth saving it and hosting it yourself rather than a ban...
Paco_the_Insane
Phorum Phantom
+244|6862|Ohio
I have a question, can i still enter the Xmas contest?
Zimmer
Un Moderador
+1,688|6973|Scotland

Paco_the_Insane wrote:

I have a question, can i still enter the Xmas contest?
No
How about cutting out the stupid questions.
Arkanon
Member
+3|6912|London, UK
I wouldn't replace images from my site with porn, because that just seems wrong.

But I do replace images with a polite message asking people not to use images from my site without my permission. I created all the images used on my site, and it doesn't seem right that someone uses them on another page without putting a credit and a link to the page it came from.

And EricTViking is right about the bandwidth. Web hosting companies charge a fair whack if you go over your monthly traffic limit, so it's pretty painful to find that someone has dumped one of your biggest images on a forum page that gets thousands of visitors. Almost none of the forum visitors care about the image, but it has to load in full every time anyone visits that page.

So the message from site owners is simple: please get permission before you copy or hotlink any image.

Last edited by Arkanon (2006-09-29 07:33:02)

Arkanon
Member
+3|6912|London, UK
Oh, and repins_bib is right: if you don't get permission to use an image, it's not safe to assume that just because it's not pr0n now that it won't become pr0n later.

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