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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
The guy posts links to other sites. He's not using other people's images on his site without permission, he's not hacking anyone, or doing anything illegal that I can tell. He's linking to another site, just like any other link. If you don't like it, then don't make that link available.
What you are talking about, linking to a directory which has a list of all the images, is the way that most TGP's used to do it in the old days.
If he was pulling other people's images into his site, then I would say fuck him up, but the fact that he links to some directory page on another server is not illegal. Linking to a page on another website without permission is not illegal, right? When was the last time you asked permission before you posted a link to a Yahoo picture or story?
If you don't like it, you can stop someone from linking to a specific page on your site by using technology.
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You couldn't be more wrong. If you are linking to indexes of images which were not intended to be made public and doing it without the permission of the owner you are STEALING! Plain and simple. In the old days yes people used to do this and the reason why it was legitmate or ok most of the time was because it was the webmaster himself who submitted the link to the index of images thereby giving permission to link it. I can't believe you would defend this guy. The site gets a shitload of traffic and there are a lot of webmasters paying for huge bandwidth bills because of it.