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Posted By: The Time Trust Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-14 11:24 PM
Found via Wil Wheaton's blog:

http://imgred.com/

Web site ImgRed lets you quickly embed an image from another web site and embed it elsewhere without leeching bandwidth from the source. Just grab the URL of the image and append it to http://imgred.com/. The site copies the image to their server the first time it's requested, then serves it up permanently.

*Amazing!*
Posted By: the G-man Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-14 11:53 PM
Doesn't photobucket do basically the same thing?
Posted By: The Time Trust Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-14 11:58 PM
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Details: When posting on message boards or blogs, often you want to show or link to an image on another website. Directly showing or linking to that image is called hot-linking. It's generally bad because it leeches bandwidth from the host site, and as a result many webmasters have their servers set up to prohibit hot-linking.

The typical work-around is to do the following:

* Save the image to your hard drive
* Navigate to a free image-hosting website
* Enter the path to the image on your hard drive
* Wait for it to upload
* Copy the new URL and paste it into your message-board or blog post

That's rather tedious. Well ImgRed.com lets you simply enter the original URL in your post as you normally would, but with http://imgred.com/ written before the URL. When this is viewed, the image will be copied once to imgred.com, and from then on the image will always be served from imgred.com instead of the host site. Additionally, a thumbnail is automatically generated, which can be accessed by adding http://imgred.com/tn/ before the original URL.

Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-14 11:58 PM
Where's the fun in posting pics without stealing bandwith?
Posted By: The Time Trust Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 12:00 AM
Because some servers don't let you steal bandwidth, so the images don't show up when you try. Imgred gets around that.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 12:04 AM
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ImgRed.com lets you simply enter the original URL in your post as you normally would, but with http://imgred.com/ written before the URL. When this is viewed, the image will be copied once to imgred.com, and from then on the image will always be served from imgred.com instead of the host site. Additionally, a thumbnail is automatically generated, which can be accessed by adding http://imgred.com/tn/ before the original URL.



And at photobucket, you can cut and paste a URL directly, without saving it to your hard drive, and creating a photobucket url.

It's a little different, but doesn't seem that different.
Posted By: The Time Trust Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 12:09 AM
Interesting.
Posted By: sneaky bunny Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 12:21 AM
uh no not really, imgred and photobuckets techniques are completely different.

photobucket simple saves the image from the url to the account just like it does with images from the hard drive and mobile phone options.

imgred simple redirects it.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 12:38 AM
But if imgred redirects the image, isn't imgred itself piggybacking on the original site's bandwidth?
Posted By: the G-man Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 12:46 AM
Okay, I do see a major difference, which wasn't clear the way the article was written.

With imgred you don't actually have to go their site to set up the image link. All you do is type "http://imgred.com/" directly before the url where the pic is located.

For example, to post a pic of Angelina Jolie from Fox News, located at http://imgred.com/http://www.foxnews.com...40907_jolie.jpg

I would put

http://imgred.com/http://www.foxnews.com...40907_jolie.jpg

between the [image] brackets, like so:




That IS a lot simpler.
Posted By: The Time Trust Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 12:51 AM
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Interesting.

Posted By: sneaky bunny Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 1:35 AM
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Okay, I do see a major difference, which wasn't clear the way the article was written.

With imgred you don't actually have to go their site to set up the image link. All you do is type "http://imgred.com/" directly before the url where the pic is located.

For example, to post a pic of Angelina Jolie from Fox News, located at http://imgred.com/http://www.foxnews.com...40907_jolie.jpg

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http://imgred.com/http://imgred.com/http://www.foxnews.com/images/275686/0_64_040907_jolie.jpg

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That IS a lot simpler.


yeah cause that's not what i said.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 1:52 AM
True. All you wrote was "uh no not really, imgred and photobuckets techniques are completely different. photobucket simple saves the image from the url to the account just like it does with images from the hard drive and mobile phone options. imgred simple redirects it."
Posted By: Ultimate Jaburg53 Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 2:58 AM
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Where's the fun in posting pics without stealing bandwith?



Yeah!
Posted By: Nöwheremän Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 3:21 AM
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Where's the fun in posting pics without stealing bandwith?



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Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 9:23 PM
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Where's the fun in posting pics without stealing bandwith?



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Posted By: Good Question Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 9:40 PM
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Posted By: Good Question Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-15 9:57 PM
Posted By: Pig Iran Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-16 12:24 PM
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The Time Trust said:
Found via Wil Wheaton's blog:

http://imgred.com/

Web site ImgRed lets you quickly embed an image from another web site and embed it elsewhere without leeching bandwidth from the source. Just grab the URL of the image and append it to http://imgred.com/. The site copies the image to their server the first time it's requested, then serves it up permanently.

*Amazing!*




I'm disturbed that you visit Wil's blog...
Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-16 1:45 PM
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Posted By: Lothar of The Hill People Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-16 6:28 PM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-17 1:45 AM
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Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-17 5:22 AM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-17 8:08 AM
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Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-17 2:22 PM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-17 10:11 PM
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Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-17 11:18 PM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-17 11:31 PM
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Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-18 12:23 AM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-18 2:45 AM
The whole comic's down. What took the guy so long?
Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-18 4:55 AM
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dunno?

Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-18 6:50 AM
Oh nevermind, the pictures are loading again. Carry on.

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Posted By: Uschi Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-18 7:17 AM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-18 8:31 AM
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Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-18 2:34 PM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-18 9:27 PM
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Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-19 12:25 AM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-19 3:02 AM
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Posted By: Irwin Schwab Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-19 6:08 AM
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Posted By: Im Not Mister Mxyzptlk Re: Stealing images without stealing bandwidth - 2007-04-19 7:38 AM
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