What is hotlinking?
Bandwidth theft or "hotlinking" is direct linking to a web site's files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an <img> tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own site, eBay auction listing, weblog, forum message post, etc.
This is theft. It has been in our rules since day one, which you all agree to by participating here.
Bottom line, hotlink to someone else's images - you are gone - no warnings, no first offences.
You may of course post links to the images or to any respectable site in your posts and you may display images IF they are on your own server.
