Thanks to [[user:DrBob|DrBob]] for finding this: Apparently wordIQ are not only infringing the GFDL and the copyright of wikipedia (or its contributers), but are also stealing our bandwidth. Images in the articles they have illegally copied from us are loaded from the wikipedia servers. (I did a quick test by replacing [[Image:BernardLortie.JPG]] with a modified version and having a look at http://www.wordiq.com/cgi-bin/knowledge/lookup.cgi?title=Bernard_Lortie)
My question: Is there any legal precedent that such action is illegal? From a pragmatic point of view, it is clearly wrong: they are making money with their (most probably spyware) toolbar at wikipedia's expense. Or, more precisely, Jimbo's expense. How do things like google's image search work. I believe they also load images from other's servers. Is there anything specified in robots.txt about this?
Best, Sascha Noyes