Hotlinking is Naughty

You are likely seeing this page because someone attempted to hotlink an image from fief.org. If you didn't do that, our apologies for you seeing a reference to this page and not the image you expected to see. If you did try to include an image from fief.org into a webpage under another domain, you shouldn't do that. Read on for more information.

What is hotlinking?

Hotlinking (also known as image inlineing) would be the inclusion of images from one domain on pages hosted under another domain without permission of the first domain's owner.

Why is it bad?

Well for starters hotlinking without permission means you are using up bandwidth someone else paid for. That's not nice.

Secondly there are likely issues of copyright. Images on fief.org are copyright by someone and while we have permission to use them, others likely do not.

Now what?

Instead of including the image in another page, provide a link to the page on fief.org with the image on it.

Or you could ask permission of the page or domain owner, maybe they will say yes.

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