Last Sunday I just disable hot linking for this blog. I found out that somebody was stealing bandwidth space from me. For those the sake of the uninformed “Hotlinking” or “hotlink” works like this. Most blogs or websites often feature pictures and images. The picture or images can be addressed in your website or blog through a unique url address. For example in my case one of my image url address is at https://www.zdiaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Kindle-1.jpg Now somebody comes along and finds this picture that I have uploaded. Instead of asking my permission to use my image, downloading it to their computer or netbooks and uploading it to their server, they just use the image link (The url above) in their site and viola ! My image is already featured in their site. This is called “hotlinking.” Aside from the fact that they are using images that I personally took without permission when these people “hotlink” to my site they also steal bandwidth. What do I mean when I say that … [Read more...]