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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
You, of course being the largest forum in the world, don't want to take on the massive burden of relying on your software (and the extra needed hardware) to filter out all of the people attempting to do stuff like this (nor do you want to become a SPAM hotbed for porn sites), so you nip this in the bud and go to my webhost. Right?
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And here your reasoning fails.
First of all, the burden of managing (hot)links to content falls upon the shoulders of the site doing the (hot)linking.
Secondly, a host should not modify the content of its clients without legally compelling reasons to do so.
Imagine a site that has a "picture of the month", an image with the same filename that changes every month. Some are pornographic, some are non-nude. If people start hotlinking the picture, should the host of the site they belong to prohibit the client from ever using pornographic content again?