Hotlinking images is bad

Feb
6

With an increasing number of people hot-linking to images on my site, specifically the photograph I took of a sunset, I've had to disable linking to them on other sites to stop the drain on my bandwidth it's causing each month. If more people continue to hotlink to these images without permission I may have to resort to only keeping my images on Flickr. For those that attempt this anyway, they will see the following image.

This image was stolen

If you want to use one of my photographs then please ask permission first.

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Kandice

Hi! I just rec'd a comment about this from you on my blog. I am SO sorry. I just found it on google images and didn't know it affected anything. I'll remove it if you like, or insert a link to your blog... please let me know what you prefer!
Thanks! My blog address is: http://merawandpure.blogspot.com/

Kandice commented 4 years ago
David G. Paul

Hi, don't worry about it. I've replied via your blog, and I don't mind you continuing to use it if you copy it and just mention or link to where it came from.

Thanks for contacting me back :-)

David G. Paul commented 4 years ago
Trish

Hi.. I wanted to make sure that you knew how sorry I was for posting your beautiful picture w/o permission. trulytrish.blogspot.com

Trish commented 4 years ago
David G. Paul

No problem Trish, feel free to continue using it, just so long as you copy it rather than linking to it. Glad you liked it though!

David G. Paul commented 4 years ago
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