A Polite Request

I want to ask again that people please not hotlink to images hosted on Ate Up With Motor. (To be clear, by “hotlinking,” I mean placing an image on an external website whose href attribute still refers back to the image location on the Ate Up With Motor site.) Ate Up With Motor runs on a shared server with finite resources; hotlinking images adds to the load on the server and makes it that much more difficult for me to keep the site running at a reasonable speed. For that reason, if I see evidence of hotlinking in the server or error logs, I may take technical steps to block it. (I’ve added a specific stipulation to the Privacy Policy to that effect.) Thanks for understanding!

ETA: I want to draw a clear distinction here between hotlinking images and simply reusing them in some other manner, stipulations for which are discussed in the Reprint/Reuse Policy. If, for example, an image is in the public domain in your jurisdiction, you’re certainly welcome to copy the image and reuse it elsewhere on the web — just don’t expect me to host it for you (which is what hotlinking entails) without asking me first!

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