Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:12:11 -0700
From: brion(a)wikimedia.org
To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Where to report hotlinking?
On 8/6/09 11:20 AM, Rayson Ho wrote:
I found sites hotlinking photos on Wikimedia...
is there a place that
I can report them??
We strongly encourage reuse of our materials, and we don't mind hotlinking.
The nature of the web itself is very pro-linking; "hotlinking" is the
natural way to use an image on the web that exists in a stable location.
IMO hotlinking-phobia is mostly due to smaller sites discovering that a
large chunk of their bandwidth is being taken up by somebody else using
their image that they didn't want to be reused in the first place...
which is not the case we find ourselves in! :)
If we do find particularly egregious abuse we might poke an exception
for technical reasons, but that'll be something we'd do behind the
scenes. There's no need to report or try to shut down general hotlinking
of images from Commons, Wikipedia etc.
-- brion
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