"I just wonder why somebody gets so uppity and says IN VERY BIG LETTERS:
"Please do not hotlink my images! URL's were created for a reason..."
I have been running websites for some ten years now and have not the slightest problem if someone links directly to one of my images. It seems an eminently sensible thing to do as it avoids the user wasting a lot of time going through garbage on the way to get to the important bit that really matters.
This "don't hotlink" business before and the wittering on about bandwidth, etc, crops up occasionally. It always strikes me a case of self-importance.
Jack Harrison"
Please feel free to hotlink my images when you start paying for the bandwidth.
Due to you and others hotlinking the images instead of using the URL link for the thread, I used up a whole months worth of bandwidth
in one day.
Please send me the URLs to a whole pile of your images and I'll gladly hotlink them on heavy traffic sites all over the web and we'll see how long it before you change your "I've not the slightest problem with people hotlinking my images" statement.
Rob