{"id":556,"date":"2009-02-06T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T05:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2009-02-08T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T02:31:19","slug":"hot-linking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/hot-linking\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Linking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Touchy subject I know, but I have noticed a few people who have hot linked from\/to my site.<\/p>\n<p>I ask you to please not do this, as it increases my bandwidth use, which costs me alot more money to have my blog running.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a definition on hot linking<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hotlinking&#8221; (also called &#8220;hot linking&#8221;, &#8220;leeching&#8221;, and &#8220;bandwidth theft&#8221;) is a term referring to when a web page of one website owner is direct linking to the images or other multimedia files on the web host of another website owner (usually without permission, thus stealing bandwidth).\u00c2\u00a0 This not only causes the other person to pay for the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-webhosts.com\/definition\/bandwidth.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bandwidth<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0of the hotlinked file, but often is intellectual property theft.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ETA: using a link is not hotlinking, that&#8217;s fine. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s when you copy an image and paste it straight to your website without saving it to your computer first.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touchy subject I know, but I have noticed a few people who have hot linked from\/to my site. I ask you to please not do this, as it increases my bandwidth use, which costs me alot more money to have my blog running. Here&#8217;s a definition on hot linking &#8220;Hotlinking&#8221; (also called &#8220;hot linking&#8221;, &#8220;leeching&#8221;,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":[],"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stampin-up-card-ideas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisatilsner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}