On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:11 AM, David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hotlinking isn't generally allowed
Who says? Mirroring all pages isn't allowed, but I've never heard
that we have a problem with hotlinking images, as long as the
bandwidth use is reasonable.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:00 AM, John at Darkstar<vacuum(a)jeb.no> wrote:
The person hotlinking can have a resonable fair use
claim, but the site
serving a fair use image for someone else would most likely be in
serious trouble defending its position.
It's not technically possible for us to stop people from hotlinking
images without possible adverse side effects on our own users. What
specific anti-hotlinking technique do you propose? Just talking to
specific sites that rate high enough on the charts?
If you have some reasoning that
this is not the case it would be interesting, as the fair use images
from english Wikipedia can be moved to Commons if this is correct.
That doesn't make sense. Fair use images are prohibited on Commons
because they're not in line with Commons' mission. What relevance
does that have to hotlinking?