Toby Bartels wrote:
LittleDan wrote:
>Maybe we should make it easier to include external
>images. Then, in reprints from the server dump, it
>would always either be linked externally or ignored.
>No one's infringing, I don't think, especially if we
>say that all externally linked images must be under
>fair use. Externally linked images would also decrease
>the server load.
We used to allow these, but got rid of them
after a rash of links to <goatse.cx>.
That they could change without any sign on Wikipedia
(that is, no detection by Recentchanges or a Watchlist)
was also a motivating factor.
I also think it is fundamentally immoral to have inline links to foreign
images. It circumvents (probably illegally) copyright restrictions and
steals bandwidth.
However, I find it fundamentally moral to include a link to the site or
page which contains the wanted image. That way, the image owner gets
credit and web traffic.
Axel