Image etiquette and bandwidth theft
Posted by Niall in Entertainment, Food, Hosting, Links, Movies, Personal, Photos, WTF?, archive, controversy on 06-Dec-2008 at 2:23 pm GMT.
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Quick lesson in “image etiquette” on the interwebs.
If you’re going to use an image from someone elses site (e.g.: mine) – as long as you’re sure they won’t have a problem with it, of course, there’s two things you should do.
1. Download it from their site, upload it to your own – meaning you’re using your own bandwidth, not theirs.
2. Credit them for the image.
Thanks on both these counts to the lovely lecraic.
Boo hiss! on both counts to Amanda’s Growing Pains. Here’s a screenshot. Her blog entry DID have a picture looking like THIS in it:
… and okay, granted- that’s not MY original photo, but it’s hosted on my server and she directly linked to it, using my bandwidth (albeit a small amount) – so I changed the file so it looks like this:
(I also posted a reply there linking her to here). I guess that’ll show her… 
Michele
Claire Boyles
NiallOK
johnathan mcauliffe
I haven’t checked my personal blog’s logs, but I know the company blog images are being abused by quite a few people. It’s really really annoying, as I use paid stock photos to illustrate a lot of the posts. Why should I pay for something so that someone else can abuse it? Obviously the bandwidth isn’t an issue for me
But that doesn’t excuse it!
Michele
It’s not really an issue for me either when it comes to a 28Kb image, but it’s the principle of the thing, darnit
Thanks for the mention. I’m ultra conscious of the bandwidth thing but, moreso, the crediting for an image. Someone did it with a Wispa bar photo I took and I left a comment on the blog to say would they host it on their own server and give a credit for where the image came from. No reply to the comment so I put a big breasted lady where the Wispa image was. Your one is better though!