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Posted by: Wil 2 years, 3 months agoWeb 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.
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Craig
April 7, 2007, 10:28 a.m.49 votes !?! Please if you can't host an image don't encourage linking -- this is someone elses material that you are using without sourcing or permission.
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decipher
April 7, 2007, 11:43 a.m.craig's right. if you don't have permision to use an image you are stealing it. it's the same as downloading music and not paying for it. what do you think the result will be when photographers, musicians and other artists can no longer feed their families because some of you think you deserve something for nothing?
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Senseless
April 7, 2007, 11:46 a.m.Yeah I am wondering how a site could get away with hosting someone elses images without thier consent but I guess google caches images to.
Does it provide a link to the original source?
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keyfitter
April 7, 2007, 12:19 p.m.Here is another alternative for Linux users
who use the KDE desktop. Simply use ksnapshot
on the image and save it to your disk.
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Then create an account on: http://www.divshare.com/.
Upload the image to a folder that you create.
Then, you can embed that link to your image anywhere,
just like this one of my desktop.
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keyfitter
April 7, 2007, 7:37 p.m.Since when OS2X, is it stealing to create your own
images and share them on another site?.
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keyfitter
April 7, 2007, 7:45 p.m.In fact, graphics are nothing compared to the
freeloaders who download a Linux distro, and use
it for their main operating system without donating
a cent to help out some hard working developers.
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icelander
April 10, 2007, 9:28 a.m.I'm currently developing a Wordpress plugin that'll do something similar, only you'll be using your bandwidth rather than ImgRed's.
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