Talk:Providing image inline linking

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FYI

This article was created for the express purpose of providing an alternative presentation and discussion of image inline linking, "hotlinking" and related issues. It has again become crystal clear that Scjessey, under threat of Admin action, will not allow any discussion of "hotlinking" or related issues of "theft" to be presented that he does not endorse.

He will not even allow a Request for Other Participants to remain on this page or the other page, which he originally created.

Therefore, the information is considered, by at least one person, to be one-sided, incomplete, and less useful than it could be.

This previous discussion was buried in the history list by ScJessey, as this one probably will also be.

Previous discussion in DreamHost forum shows others disagree with Jessey on terminology and severity of "theft."

Previous official DreamHost positions in Kbase were softer on "theft:"

"Hotlinking" is when somebody displays an image (or any type of file actually) on somebody else's web site directly inline on their site!

There's nothing particularly wrong with that, it's a big part of how the WWW was designed to work. However, it does "steal" the bandwidth of the original site, and could possibly infringe on a copyright.

Wikipedia discussions also show terminology is not settled.

Perfect10 versus Google provides legal precedents, which may not support the statements in this and the other article.

Despite all this, the ability of this author to present information is being subjected to step-by-step scrutiny by ScJessey, and he is insisting on approving all aspects of the article. This is unacceptable.

Unless and until Jessey agrees to not nit-pick every change, and encourage input from others, it is a waste of time to even attempt to present a different view, and it is barely possible to hint they are other views.

I echo the following from the previous debate over anonymity, by Austicke, who has apparently added precious little since:

Why do you need to track who makes which changes? I think you're missing the point of wikis. They're successful because anyone can edit them. I thought the login requirement was made simply to foil spammers (mostly robots). I didn't know it was to kill anonymity. Once again, IPs are tracked and spammers can be dealt with, so what does it matter if someone wants to be anonymous or share one login with 20 people? If they're contributing to the wiki and not being disruptive, then that's a benefit! If you want to track every contribution by name and heavily police the wiki, then this project is doomed. -- Austicke 09:52, 13 Jun 2005 (PDT)

RIP

-- Anonymous 14:13, 30 May 2006 (PDT)