Post by sara on Aug 29, 2006 20:36:26 GMT -5
mt said:
sara said:
Actually, if you just link to a photo instead of saving it to photo bucket or something and then linking to it, you may be costing the person at the original site money. The company that use to host my sight charged me if I went over so many gigs a month. My site averages 20,000 plus hits a month and that can end up costing. I have since moved to a site host that doesn't give me a limit. But back when I had one, I would get my reports and see where the hits were coming from. If they were legit, great, but sometimes people were just linking to my photographs and costing me bandwidth and it was getting to expensive, so when I found that, I would change the address on the photograph and then put the name they were linked to on a notice that said "this site (or forum) is a bandwidth thief?" It generally didn't take long for them to break the link on their own. So please realize that when you just link to someones pictures, you could be costing them money, and they may be nicer than I was and just be changing the picture address.
That is really interesting and I don't understand half of it or how to avoid costing people $ unintentionally. I'll have to look into that. It seems that that might have to change in the future. If the photo owner can't keep people out at the front end and keep ending up paying, they're all going to walk and find another more cost effective service like you did, right?
Probably. Of course you can put watermarks on your photos, but then they are so ugly that no one wants to look at them. And small copyrights are way to easy to crop off. Actually, if people will just copy them and not link to them, I don't mind their using my photos. I am actually flattered. It is amazing some of the places I have found my plant/flower photography. I really like it when people ask if they can use my photos and graphics though. I always say yes.
Thanks, Elle!