Jason Scott Goatse's MySpace

[razorjak]

HAHAHHAHA ... Proof that MySpace is full of people even STUPIDER than WebTV or AOL could ever dream.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000278.html

I officially announce that I would go gay for this man.

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Baby me a little.

[treebyleaf.livejournal.com]

I am to understand from reading this, that "hotlinking" is a method of displaying on site B an image found on site A such that site A continues to bear the burden of storage/access for all site B's viewers???

That's... that's utterly despicable.

Re: Baby me a little.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

And it's something a LOT of the myspace fucks do.

A lot of the fuckers use the tired cliche of "I found it on the web so it's fair game." A lot of them don't know they are doing it because they have someone else *cough* design their page for them. They don't bother looking at the script before loading it onto their page.

Admittedly, I have hotlinked in the past. But those times I have were also made into links to the originating site.

Re: Baby me a little.

[kest]

Basically, any time you put up an image on the web, you link to it with html (it goes 'img src="blahblahblah"'). The *right* way to do this is to have that 'src' be somewhere you control, whether its your own website or a photo account somewhere. But it's just as easy to put in a URL for that image source that is somewhere else entirely, so that every time that image shows, it draws on bandwidth that doesn't belong to you, and that's 'hotlinking'. And of course because its easy, stupid people don't realize how it can be bad.

Re: Baby me a little.

[treebyleaf.livejournal.com]

....
click.

I get it. Heck, on occasion I've done that in LJ-- occasions when I wanted people to be able to follow up to the original site.

So-- not malicious, just blood-suckingly stupid. :/