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Is an LJ image feed bandwidth theft?

April 26, 2017bandwidth feed image lj theft

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Is an LJ image feed bandwidth theft?

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No. The term “bandwidth theft,” like spam, has become so overused that it’s nearly meaningless. If you don’t want people to link to it, don’t put it on teh Intarweb.

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The problem isn’t linking, the problem is inline images such as the website linked above. I think I only ever saw one LJ image feed that used actual links rather than inline image leeching. Nowadays when you post 1 image on livejournal you can sometimes have 50 of these feed websites all piling on and leeching the image within seconds of it being posted. And it’s funny how this “great” script started spreading on websites such as metafilter where one would think people are more considerate when it comes to things like image leeching. So anyway yes, it is. I host lj images for a number of friends and it became an orgy of leeching. I ban all feed sites.

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It’s not nearly as bad as when a LJ kid uses one your photos as a background image on their journal. That’s serious leeching.

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If they’re bandwidth theft, then so is images.google.com. So, no. But images.google.com caches the thumbnails, until you actually go to the page that contains the image.

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I don’t really consider it bandwidth theft, but it can lead to it. I have several people hosting images on my website and from time to time something that gets picked up by the LJ image feed is posted to multiple forums. That’s when bandwidth really starts to take a hit.