What EVERYONE needs to know about image harvesting and hot linking
I have had it on my long list of things to do to write an article about this important topic. Seems like Julie just beat me to it!
Image harvesting is copying and pasting an image from someone’s website and putting it on their own. Not Cool 
Hot linking is linking to the image located on another website so that it appears on your own site. Not Cool
Please read Julie’s excellent article here. and her second article here.
Just a small word about the free demo buttons and such that I make available to everyone…
These are free indeed, and please feel free to download them and use them on your blogs without asking. What I do ask is that everyone please download the buttons and upload them on your own blogs. That is the correct way of using these free buttons. Please do not hot link them to your blogs. You’ll be stealing bandwidth from my blog host.
Thanks, Julie, for the awesome explanation! I couldn’t have said it better! 
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One Person has left comments on this post
Feb 17, 2009 - 06:02:02Michelle,
I think I may have done something wrong and I want to correct it if I did. I found your site through SCS and came to see about getting a SU catalog button for my blog. I found that and then found all the other great free buttons you have here for SU demos. So – being very excited because I am brand new to blogging – I added several to my blog page. I did so following some instructions I found on thecutestblogontheblock site where I just copy and paste the script (i think it’s called, or code maybe) to my add a gadget thing on blogger. Now that I have read all of Julie’s notes, I am confused. Is what I did hot linking? and if so, how do I change that? I am not sure how to do it another way. Do I save your script to a word document and then copy and paste from there? and then delete the word document? and if this is the right way to do it, do I go back and delete the buttons on my blog and start over?
I’m sorry for all of the questions. I really am trying to do what’s right. And thank you so much for all that you have done here especially for the SU demos like me who are not very tech knowledgeable.
Tonya