Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why does this link do this?

Hostile opened this issue on Jul 08, 2001 ยท 6 posts


ronstuff posted Sun, 08 July 2001 at 11:30 AM

I'm sure it is a remote linking situation. I don't blame Lannie for prohibiting remote linking - too many people abuse it, and use 3Dmodelworld's bandwidth for their own purposes. Its funny, but I see a lot of posts on this board about respecting copyrights (and I agree) but some of the very same people also have no qualms about remote linking from their own site to someone else's files, and basically stealing the bandwidth that someone else is paying for.. Seems a little hypocritical. I'm not talking about Renderosity, of course, they have the owner's permission to remote link - I'm talking about the people with private websites which link to files on other sites without the knowledge and permission of the owner. Its too bad that the visitor to such sites rarely knows that this is happening because when you link to a zip file it doesn't display a new html page with a fully visible location bar, it just truncates (obscuring) the actual address of the file in the download dialog box. Oh well... maybe we can raise some awareness on the issue by discussing it.