Talk:Inline linking

message: Bandwidth theft has been redirected here as per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bandwidth theft, there were several votes to merge the contents over to this article if anyone wants the task. Jtkiefer T | @ | C  ----- 23:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirected from Bandwidth theft

message: Is it appropriate for this to be the redirect from Hotlink?  I would expect Hotlink to redirect to Hypertext.  At the least, can we have a link somewhere to History of hypertext for fuller understanding of where the practice came from?  There is no History section in this article, which seems to provide a very one-sided idea of it necessarily being a Bad Thing (and which appears to violate NPOV). Aerowolf (talk) 17:37, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirected from Hotlink

message: Clearly "direct linking" is more appropriate term; "inline" just doesn't ring a bell with most people. I've been doing web programming for years and it took me longer than normal to decode what this article was about -- it was simply about direct linking, and "inline linking" was just a confusing synonym.
Ninjagecko 12:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I usually call them "dark links", can anyone comment on this name? 66.199.46.12 (talk) 14:48, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: I'd like to see this and direct linking merged and formed into a new category: "Hotlinking".  It's the most commonly used term AFAIK. ----David n m bond 15:07, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't all of these terms refer to text hyperlinks? The article is mainly about IMG tags.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.72.235.91 (talk) 18:47, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Is there any evidence that those terms are used as described? IMHO there ought to be one article, which says that "inline/hot/direct/deep linking is linking from one page to a specific document or media item on another site. Generally links to HTML pages are encouraged, but links to media may be considered theft". Simple, eh? Stevage 07:50, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge both with "hotlinking"?

message: Has anyone ever heard of terms like "Raping the bandwidth", or "Bandwidth rape" used in similar context?--DooMDrat 07:51, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Even the repeated use of "bandwidth theft" in the article comes of as extremely alarmist to me.  Hyperlinks are just hyperlinks; there's no "proper" way to organize what constitutes a "site" or a "web page".  (Hence, why *everything* has a unique URL.)  All of this webmaster complaining that people "hot linking" or "deep linking" doesn't conform to their "vision" (regardless of anyone else's "vision") of their web page is completely childish and malinformed.  Good thing there's always Greasemonkey. 71.162.255.58 18:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Regardless of the term, the article should also describe the other viewpoint: not everyone  considers it theft, that placing a public URL on a public HTTP server means that it can and should be downloaded and used freely, and that if you don't want it hotlinked you should protect it via other means.63.139.189.114 16:23, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative terms

message: I would consider "deep linking" and "bandwidth theft" to be different things that should be handled separately.    One is simply directing traffic to a site via a normal link.  The other is
using another site as a free image storage site without actually sending it any traffic.
MichaelSH 23:31, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: No vote

message: This merger has been proposed and having read both articles I agree that this might be a good idea. Perhaps leaving direct linking as a redirect to this page. __meco 07:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Inline linking and direct linking are different things (also thinking about "bandwidth theft" and legal affairs). --ChemicalBit 15:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging with [[direct linking]] 

message: Perhaps add a link to the Wikipedia policy on hotlinking as perhaps examples of a site's policy. However, presently all one can find is commons:Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#Hotlinking and Wikipedia_talk:Images#Hotlinking.
Jidanni 21:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia policy 

message: I'm flagging this article because it is in need of a mention of "remote loading." You can remote load an image from someone else's website without their permission, in which case it is bandwidth theft, or you can remote load it legitimately from a file hosting account. Many website hosting terms of service use the phrase remote loading in the context that they will or won't allow it. See this Google search for "remote loading" glossary. When this is fixed, go ahead and remove the flag. 5Q5 (talk) 21:49, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Flagged for mention of remote loading

message: isn't the term 'Bandwidth Stealing' used, too? --Itu (talk) 19:19, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: theft vs. stealing

message: The article currently has a sentence that reads:
"An article on one site may refer to copyrighted images or content on another site, avoiding rights and ownership issues that copying the original files might raise, although this practice is generally not accepted."
I think the word "refer" is misleading here, as is the word "avoiding." Unless I'm misunderstanding something, shouldn't this be...
An article on one site may inline copyrighted images or content by hotlinking them from another site; there might be an assumption that this somehow avoids the copyright issues that direct copying would entail, although this is not at all clear.
...or something like that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.243.22.130 (talk) 15:49, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not phrased correctly? 

message: The terms "HOTlink" and "HOTlink II" also refer to high speed data interfaces, see for example this Google search or this example product. George Dishman (talk) 09:30, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further Disambiguation