Originally Posted by us2006027321
Deep-linking
This is similar to how some people post backgrounds on their MySpace pages. A MySpace user sees a background he likes, copies the url and uses and "img src" HTML tag to post the website's image to their own page without hosting it themselves through their own account on an image-hosting site (which isn't always legal either). The original website only has so much bandwidth available for that kind of access. Every time someone visits that MySpace user's page and sees the background, the MySpace user actually uses some of the original website's bandwidth.
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Just wanted to clarify... you're confusing deep linking with direct linking (aka hot linking).
Direct linking is the explanation you've given above. =)
Edit: Thought some examples might help if anyone was confused.
Deep link:
http://somesite.com/images/fruit/aboutapples.htm
Deep linked image:
http://somesite.com/images/fruit/apples.gif
Direct linked/hot linked image:
The deep linked things are just links that go further into the site and are not on the main opening page of the site. You have to click on the links to go see them on another site. They don't show up here. The direct linked image shows up here because I'm direct linking the image from Photobucket.