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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Doctor Dre's comment about hotlinking being illegal is incorrect, in this particular case anyway.
Hotlinking for commercial gain, yes, a website could certainly have a case. Little Billy hotlinking on his MySpace profile, definitely not illegal.
Webpages are not like PDF files for instance where individual files can be saved/stolen and then presented by the false owner as their own work. When a webpage loads it can consist of the work of multiple people, and be served by the owners themselves. The actual owner of the .HTML file is not claiming ownership of the individual elements that are hotlinked.
I am done with this thread. Smart people who've been around the internet block a few times and are not just all talk know that my points have been correct.
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Whether hotlinking is legal or not is actually irrelevant to this case. What matters is that sites hotlinking you have no intrinsic rights to the content of files on your server, your file structure or your file naming. Unless, of course, you entered into an agreement with the hotlinkers. But that isn't the case here.