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any reason why this is a link to an external site? :)
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However, there are those (commonly called "leechers") who display images on their site directly taken from another "Hotlinked" or "Inline Linked", using the other site's bandwidth without permission for their own purposes. Of course, when the home site find this out, it's quite easy to change the image to something else. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Usually it's just changed to a warning against using images/bandwidth without permission, but sometimes, snarky pranks or [[Shock Site]] images ensue.
This is why we upload images locally instead of relying on external sites.
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* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'': The "National Organization for Marriage", an anti-gay-marriage group, hot-linked a [http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2144 comic from his site.] The author responded by [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|changing the image]] to one [http://twitpic.com/3w7b1j supporting gay marriage].
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