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metool
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Whats going on here?!
The picture of the ship is gone and is replaced with I\'m a Bandwith Theif!
Whats going on?


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Hao
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It means you got the picture without the site owner\'s permit. You are hotlinking that pic aren\'t you? Ask the person who owns the pic about it.

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Originally posted by Vincent
It means you got the picture without the site owner\'s permit. You are hotlinking that pic aren\'t you? Ask the person who owns the pic about it.

Wait a minute....its gone now......
And I wasn\'t hotlinking any pic either....


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:lol:

I put some hotlinking blocks a while back to prevent people from stealing bandwidth by linking directly to the pictures. Looks like you got caught ;)


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Doc, I tried linking directly to the pics for the sake of testing it (not sure if I did do it right. I\'m new to the hotlinking thing. ) and I didn\'t see the bandwith thief thing.

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Originally posted by Mega X.exe
Doc, I tried linking directly to the pics for the sake of testing it (not sure if I did do it right. I\'m new to the hotlinking thing. ) and I didn\'t see the bandwith thief thing.


Not all directories are locked, only some of them... I block images that get massively abused, while others are left alone.


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Plus, Mega X...if you already loaded the image in your browser, the anti-hotlinking dealie won\'t kick in, and you\'ll see the image fine. You\'d have to have someone else hotlink a picture to you that your browser hasn\'t loaded, in order to see the bandwidth stealing image. o.o

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So.. If you try to hot link a picture thats really bad , it will end up saying: \"Im a bandwith theif!\"?


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Thats the theory.


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Originally posted by Dr. Cossack
:lol:

I put some hotlinking blocks a while back to prevent people from stealing bandwidth by linking directly to the pictures. Looks like you got caught ;)

I didn\'t hotlink anything to this site....


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No, it\'s from this site that says \'I\'m a bandwidth thief!\'


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Oh, ok...
Well, I guess this answers my question I\'ll PM the Doc to lock it. Please don\'t reply to this since the question has been answered......


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