A lot of people like to take the content on this site and post it on their own site. Why someone would do this rather than just post an excerpt and link to my script is beyond me, but people seem to do it a lot.

There’s not much I can do about it besides hate you, but every so often a world-class idiot will include the image at the top of the script as well. This is called hotlinking, and it sucks.

It sucks because I have to pay for the bandwidth. When you download a page, an image, or anything else from the-editing-room.com, it is using bandwidth that I pay for. So if you take the script only, the text comes from YOUR server, but if what you pull includes an image tag that points to the image on my server, then everyone who goes to your site also pegs my server to download the image. This is obnoxious behavior.

It’s also remarkably dumb, and here’s why: I can move files around on my server, since it’s my server. This means that when you link to an image on my site, I can change the image on the server so that it’s a picture of something else, and now when people go to your site, they see this new image.

Keep reading for a demonstration (WARNING: NSFW and GROSS)

This is the site of a guy who hotlinked my image, as I found it:

And here it is after changing the image:

So the moral is: I’d rather you not copy entire scripts from this site to post on your own, but if you’re going to do it, don’t be an idiot about it.