Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net writes:
This kind of problem was entirely forseeable. There is consistent acceptance among Wikipedians of the principle that the material is there for anybody's use, and a common irritation when a user purports to apply his own copyrights.
You missed the point.
1. User must obey the license (e.g., they are not allowed to make the material proprietary).
2. The main complaint was, a third party is abusing foreign bandwidth (with "deep links"). Even if the material is free this does not mean they are allowed to provide inline links to wikipedia.org. They must download the pictures and serve them from their own server.
There is/was also a german pseudo mirror which let wikipedia.org werve the images. At least in Germany this isn't allowed.