Easily Post Images Without Hotlinking

If you've ever posted an image from someone else's site into a forum, or message board or on MySpace, you (should) know that you're not supposed to link directly to that image. This is known as hotlinking or leaching, and is considered a no-no since it uses the bandwidth of the source's website every time that image is displayed.

Normally you would have to download the image to your computer, upload it to a hosting company (such as ImageShack, or a $99/year Image Hosting plan with us), then link to the file you uploaded -- A rather lengthy process for a silly little post. Well, now the folks over at ImgRed.com have simplified the process for us posters. All you have to do is prefix the full URL to the original image with http://www.imgred.com/. For example, http://www.imgred.com/http://www.grinn.net/images/jesus.jpg instead of only http://www.grinn.net/images/jesus.jpg. Thank you, ImgRed, for being so awesome.

Oh, and if you want the source code for ImgRed, you can find it here. ;)

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