[Commons-l] Where to report hotlinking?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Alex Brollo <alex.brollo at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about adding/editing some basic EXIF data (author,licence) into
> uploaded Commons files that support them, like jpg? They can be deleted by a
> malicius user into downloads, but they will be saved when hotlinked. I don't
> know if any EXIF managing is currently done on Commons files; IMHO it could
> be useful, for a number of reasons, and not only for hotlinking.
[snip]

EXIF data is fine, but it doesn't really suffice for attribution: No
on will find it; it's effectively not there.

Unfortunately all that metadata is currently stripped for any
thumbnails. So in the common case that they hotlink a thumb you don't
even get that much.