Jenspm wrote:
Question: to test this, can I copy the image adress and past it in the adress bar to see if the real image comes up?
Fraid not, as that would be going directly to the image, only way you can make sure it won't happen to you is by previewing before you post.
For people not understanding I'll try and explain.
Whenever you look at anything on the Internet you are using bandwidth, and bandwidth on the Internet costs money to the owner of that site. Whenever you link to a picture from another site your browser has to go to that site and get the information that makes up that picture from the other page. This means that the content from the other page is being used without either the consent of the page owner or without you actually going to that page, essentially frauding that page from hits over the Internet. Now many website owners got annoyed with this, so decided instead of people being able to do this and freely use their bandwidth (and therefore money) they started locking it out in some way (that I don't understand) and replacing any image you tried to post from their site with one like this
(yes I realise the irony/hypocrisy above)
But this didn't really stop people trying, so instead of a obvious (if rather funny) warning they replaced that sort of picture with pornography and images which many forums do not allow there by causing the thief to be banned/blocked from that forum and slow down the amount of bandwidth that said person can steal.
Essentially just click preview before you post any images, that will show you whether or not the owner of that material is allowing you to show it away from his/her site.
If anything I've said up there is incorrect just tell me, I'm just going by what I understand.
