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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
The burden of proof is on the shoulders of the person linking to the image that it's used in accordance with the license of the hosting site as well as in accordance with copyright law.
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responsibility rests on the poster's shoulders. The term "burden of proof" is one involved in assessing blame. The poster wouldn't blame themself, and if they did, they would need no proof except to say, "my bad."
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Asking for an added note explaining the status of such images where it isn't very clear from the hosting url is not putting the burden of proof where it wasn't before, since it was there to begin with.
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Are you saying it's the responsibility of a poster to annotate the sources of his/her imbedded images, the nature of that source (public, private), reasonable expectations of third-party use, and permission, when necessary?
Or would it be better to merely educate all users and let them use their best judgement, in accordance with the rules, while correcting them as required if/when necessary?
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Originally Posted by Nicolas
There's another problem with hotlinking images: you force anyone reading the thread to download it, which costs bandwidth or monthly download volume for everyone watching the thread.
But after all, we all know rule 8 is made just so you can't hotlink to this little piece of evidence about the BA's social qualities.
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Sadly, that was the result of a poor telephone connection. When rule 8 was being made, we said "we need you to ban hotlinks, because..." but he heard, "we need you to don hot pink gloves."
We've tried convincing him to go with lime green, but I think he's grown fond of the "enthralling" color.
