> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:12:11 -0700
> From: brion@wikimedia.org
> To: commons-l@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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