Copyright on image

[redrocket]

Hi there, long time lurker and this is my first post..

 

I got into trouble on another forum for copying an image from this site, this pic:

 

Just wondering what the copyright is on the image, and is it possible to have permission to use it?

 

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[ZetecVan 2.0]

You mean the 'this thread is worthless' smilies? As far as I'm concerned, it's a graphic that comes with the phpbb forum and can be used anywhere.

 

Did you get into trouble for using it, or 'hotlinking' the picture from another forum, and that forum didn't like you doing it?

[tim]

the

 

was created by a member of the saxo sports club forum many years ago and i got it added on to old skool ford afew years ago

[ZetecVan 2.0]

the

 

was created by a member of the saxo sports club forum many years ago and i got it added on to old skool ford afew years ago

 

Really? I didn't know that.

 

It's done the rounds then as it appears all over the place!

[redrocket]

They didnt like me hotlinking from this site, as it is wrong to do so without getting permission, and they are right about that.

So now I'm asking for permission and about the copyright of the image

[ZetecVan 2.0]

That's good of them to mention it to you.

 

We have unlimited bandwidth so at the moment it's ok for you to hotlink from OSF. If that changes, we will turn off hotlinking so you (or anyone) won't be able to do it.

 

Thanks for asking.

 

Mike

[young un]

wats hotlinking?

[redrocket]

Mike,

 

Thanks a million, Ill know when the hotlinking has been disabled and ill come back asking to copy the image or something.

 

Good reason not to hotlink:

Edit cant post links until i have 10 post, but google for hacking-john-mccain

 

Thanks again

[over_head_cam]

wats hotlinking?

 

 

Pasting a link up for an image on another site

 

All our pics are normally hotlinked from photobucket etc.

 

If this wasn't available we'd all have to load our pics onto the OSF site and link from the gallery.

[redrocket]

google: wiki hotlink

 

Basically stealing other people's images and bandwidth without giving them any credit. It frowned down upon in interwebland.

[over_head_cam]

google: wiki hotlink

 

Basically stealing other people's images and bandwidth without giving them any credit. It frowned down upon in interwebland.

 

If they don't want people to use them then they should protect them really shouldn't they

[ZetecVan 2.0]

google: wiki hotlink

 

Basically stealing other people's images and bandwidth without giving them any credit. It frowned down upon in interwebland.

 

If they don't want people to use them then they should protect them really shouldn't they

 

Yes. You can turn it off or on within the server control panel.

 

I have hotlinking turned off on my business site after I had some cheeky doris who wasn't even a customer advertising the products on her site and hotlinking the images from mine. She was probably buying the same products from a rival who didn't have good pictures.

[ZetecVan 2.0]

Good reason not to hotlink:

Edit cant post links until i have 10 post, but google for hacking-john-mccain

 

Thanks again

 

Great story... I've seen similar things happen, but none so funny...

 

http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/ ... ohn-mccain

[redrocket]

you can protect it, it's just not normally needed, or some sysadmins might not know it is available.

In a ht-tp (stupid forum spam killer) get request there is some information passed back to the webserver called referring domain.

So if I hotlink on everyfordireland to oldskoolford's image, the referer is detected as everyfordireland, and the webserver can detect the image is being hotlinked from another site.

You can configure the webserver what to do after that...

 

Send proper image (default)

Send nothing,

Send 404,

Send porn

[over_head_cam]

. . . . . . .Send porn

 

PMSL

[ZetecVan 2.0]

you can protect it, it's just not normally needed, or some sysadmins might not know it is available.

In a ht-tp (stupid forum spam killer) get request there is some information passed back to the webserver called referring domain.

So if I hotlink on everyfordireland to oldskoolford's image, the referer is detected as everyfordireland, and the webserver can detect the image is being hotlinked from another site.

You can configure the webserver what to do after that...

 

Send proper image (default)

Send nothing,

Send 404,

Send porn

 

Mod rewrite rocks!

[bortaf]

on some sites when yuou hotlink the pic it turns into a pic of a puppy peeing on a laptop

caught me out a few times

but then how hard is it to just save the pic to photbucket and link it from there

[Smudger105e]

Depends what the pic is of, photobucket delete some very inoffensive pics...