Program Owners: Do u allow hotlinking?

[burntfilm]

Originally Posted by Greenie

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I've not heard of anyone that allows hotlinking pics or everything from a gallery page (unless you're confusing them with hosted galleries?)

Oh no, I was seeing,
for example an affiliate's page:

http://www.this-affiliate.com/this-gallery/index.html

where the image codes in a gallery are

<a href="http://this-sponsor.com/this-image.jpg"><img src="http://this-sponsor.com/this-thumb.jpg"></a>

all the way through.

I understand the examples where it would be necessary, as nate, AJ and tickler pointed out above: hosted flv's, gallery of the day, pic of the day, etc...
what caught my attention was the above galleries and the affiliate using:

http://this-sponsor.com/this-image.jpg

hotlinked as the header for his page at

http://www.this-affiliate.com

etc.

I hadn't noticed any affiliates doing things like this before I saw this affiliates site.

thanks