Originally posted by Atoman@Oct 30 2004, 07:12 PM
<_< Ohh well, I give up. I just tried tinkering with the address again. I did leave off an l originally, but it still doesn't work. Must be blocked. I don't know why though. We're not making money off them and piraters can easily save the pics from there site. Plus I'd like to think that posting those pics. here is like free advertising for them. We'd help spread the popularity of Princess Knight outside Japan so maybe they could make more money on her products overseas.
It is not about rights of diffusion, it is about bandwidth. If someone put the link on his/her homepage, a visitor takes a small bandwidth for the page, and much more for the image. However the owner of the image benefits much less than the one linking to the image. They pay for a bandwidth that does not profit them much. Imagine thousands of fans around the world linking to the images of Tezuka site, how much bandwidth do you think that will cost them ?

That is why many web admins see the linking of an image from another site page as bandwidth stealing, and thus prevent images from being downloaded if the page refering to them is from another site.
I hope I haven't been too much confusing

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