Aug 25 2009
we love hotlinkers with a love only hans reiser could appreciate
Hotlinking is embedding an image in your website using the <img> HTML tag pointed at someone else’s server, rather than your own.
This is an enterprise fraught with hazards. You don’t control the image, and if your page is popular it disproportionately hits their server and their bandwidth allowance.
In extremis, they may do what Textfiles.com administrator and BBS: The Documentary maker what Jason Scott did when he goatsed hundreds of thousands of MySpace users. Be warned.
(This is a worksafe imitation of the world’s most famous shock site, in case you’re lucky enough not to know what goatse is.)
Screen capture by Jules de Whyisbox, 20 August 2009.
