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Avatar Bandwidth Stolen Confusion

Post by Choice195 » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:17 pm

This is really off-topic and in the wrong section, but if you didn't notice a couple days ago my avatar said "Bandwidth Stolen" i didn't change it so i was wondering if anyone did like a prank on me or something because i didn't think it was funny or cool, someone please help me out, and by the way, can someone refresh my memory of what bandwidth is? :lol:
P.S. It looked like this, Image I researched it alittle and found this website Image. The guy had the same problem and it was even DBZ related but i'm still freaking out!
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Re: WTF?

Post by Fox666 » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:23 pm

Bandwidth is how much memory is transfered from the hosting site to other computers.

Some image hosting sites don't like you to "direct link" (display the image on another site) but rather they want you to put a link to the image which will display ads.

Just ignore it and eventually they will give up. Or host the image on another website
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Re: WTF?

Post by Choice195 » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:24 pm

Fox666 wrote:Bandwidth is how much memory is transfered from the hosting site to other computers.

Some image hosting sites don't like you to "direct link" (display the image on another site) but rather they want you to put a link to the image which will display ads.
So I'm not getting my information stolen or anything am i?
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Re: WTF?

Post by Kaboom » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:25 pm

Fox666 is correct. A lot of websites have measures in place to prevent direct linking of their content, particularly images, so as not to waste bandwidth. If you want to use that image, you're going to have to save it to your own computer, then upload and link to it from somewhere like Photobucket.

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Fox666 wrote:Just ignore it and eventually they will give up.
Um, no. Don't do this.
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Re: WTF?

Post by Bussani » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:32 pm

Choice195 wrote:So I'm not getting my information stolen or anything am i?
No. Technically, you're the one who was being a thief.
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Re: Avatar Bandwidth Stolen Confusion

Post by desirecampbell » Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:53 pm

I was going to shame Choice for not being able to just google this himself (seriously, this isn't shouldn't be something we need to explain) but then I googled it and found this very thread is the fourth result. That blows me away.

Seriously though, Choice, I can't even fathom why you felt it was necessary to create this thread. The link you posted (as an image, for some reason) was the second result in that google search. And it clearly explains what's going on.

I'm just flabbergasted. Thread closed.
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