RANT: HOT LINKING to other sites

[buzz]

I would say that if you cant/dont have the bandwidth for people to hotlink, then these measures should have already been put in place. And it doesn't sound that generous to me from what you have said was the reaction etc.

Good luck with educating the internet.

[buzz]

I'm fine with paying for extra bandwidth if I get a large influx of visitors from another site; I'm not okay with paying for bandwidth used up by another site embedding my content into their pages.

fine then don't allow it. you can check the referrer easily enough. of course if someone makes their browser hide referrer information, there isn't much you can do.

but there is no point complaining about it.