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Q: Why can't I hotlink to images on celebritydesktop.com?
A: Bandwidth theft ("hotlinking") is when someone else makes their website using your space, images, sounds, videos, etc. This theft occurs when they link directly to your objects (as opposed to your pages). You end up paying for the storage space and the bandwidth to serve them, due to the extra load on your server.
So if you try to place an image from our site on your page, it'll just show up as broken, even though the path to the image is correct. Due to the rising costs of bandwidth, we don't allow it. We've never allowed it actually, people just did it without our permission. It got out of control, so we had to secure our server. Linking directly to someone else's images without permission is frowned upon by the many internet webmasters, especially those who have to pay extra for the increased traffic caused by it.
Please visit the following sites for more detailed information on image hotlinking, and why it's bad.
: What Is Bandwidth Theft?
: Don't Even Think About It
If you'd like to use an image from this site, please save it, upload it to your own web server and link it from there.
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