# Why do people get mad at me when I link to pictures that they're hosting?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 5, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-get-mad-at-me-when-i-link-to-pictures-that-theyre-hosting/324943 "2005-10-05T20:13:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-get-mad-at-me-when-i-link-to-pictures-that-theyre-hosting/324943/21 "2005-10-06T03:19:25Z")

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**Shalmanese**

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> Linking to the HTML site that contains the image is generally the most polite way to do it.

Precisely !!!

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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-get-mad-at-me-when-i-link-to-pictures-that-theyre-hosting/324943/22 "2005-10-06T07:06:55Z")

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> [@Mr2001](#):
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> Of course, that uses even more bandwidth than just linking to the image.

Yes, but at least the people who want to look at the image also have to look at the website that contains it, rather than simply seeing a stolen image on someone else’s website.

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