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Originally Posted by mugaliens
It's clear from the rules that hotlinking itself isn't the issue (as per the NASA or other public source comment), but the liklihood of causing additional bandwidth stress to someone else's resources, particularly if those resources are thin.
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No. Using the resources of others for the benefit of the forum is mostly a moral issue, which is not to say it's a non-issue. It's good to be on the right side of that.
But I'd expect the owners' greatest concern is copyright hassles -- and not just losing an infringement suit, but just being sued, or even just threatened, or even just demanded to clean something up. It cannot be a board policy to just leave those sorts of images alone and assume the best. They, and we, need to be proactive to stop infringement where it is seen or even just suspected.
If you disagree, you might ask an admin what all the reasons for the rule are.