You're assuming people are using PC software to build the site. Myspace probably has an online editor, which won't care where the pictures come from.
Dave
>
> I don't understand how people can hotlink these days.
> When you're designing a website, you nearly always have to
> take the pics from your PC. If they come from the
> internet, you can't just insert them from another person's
> site. It's impossible. When you go to save your site, in
> the editor, it will always ask you to save the pic. So how
> are people doing it?
>
>
> > Quite so. Last time I did any checking, I found a whole
> > load of hits from myspace twonks who thought it was just
> > fine to insert images linked to my server, rather than
> > bother to upload them to myspace or photobucket or
> > somewhere. Needless to say, said images were quickly
> > replaced with one saying "Please stop stealing my
> > bandwidth".. Most of them got the message and stopped
> > linking. The one that didn't got a rather stronger
> > message to deal with ;-)
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > > The obvious answer should be "check the damn stats and
> > > figure out where the hits are coming from". Depending what
> > > tracker you're using (I see some Google Analytics code on
> > > the page), that shouldn't be too hard. Hell, even *I*
> > > managed to trace a sudden flow of visitors back to a
> > > Hungarian messageboard.
> > >
> > > And as for pulling the whole site down, paranoia or
> > > marketing scheme?
> > >
> > > > OK, checking my stats here. Yesterday, the Batman site was
> > > > 17,101 hits. Today, it's 18,952 hits. That's almost 2000
> > > > its risen. What in the world is going on?? Has someone
> > > > done a report? Something else completely? Sheesh.
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