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Old 12-05-2002, 08:22 AM  
MichaelH
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Bandwidth is cheap, a properly run operation won't be hotlinked, and there are bigger problems a sponsor has to deal with.
Precisely, that's why you'll see plenty of sponsors unknowingly let their "free hosted" files being hotlinked, even if they're used for other promotion purposes. Content theft is very close to bandwidth theft ; at least about content theft, things happen, but about bandwidth theft (which is theft of services), not yet.

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Sponsors are busy running a business and rarely have time to surf.
I realize they are busy running a business, but what kind of business is it to actively/passively pay cheaters/hotlinkers/spammers ?

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Then you should have no problem with dropping a sponsor an email. its the least you can do.
No worries, i DO my homework, but most don't which is the problem, or sponsors don't seem (as also Juge could state) to react on single requests. Without team effort, no big change ; it's as simple as that.

Michael
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