Co-Founder, Editor and Code Monkey at Scrw Media.

Has Social Media Legitimized Hotlinking in Web 2.0?

Hotlinking used to be a bad thing. Essentially bandwidth theft, hotlinking is the practice of displaying and image (or video, audio file etc… ) on your site but actually having the file served by someone else’s server. In other words you use their bandwidth to display the file on your site. (This is not the [...]