Legal Question

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Embedding an image is different than hosting it, Embedding an image is still linking to an image except it shows the image instead of the link.

This brings up another issue that should be addressed. If you embed an image on your own web site or even on a forum group such as this one, that is hosted on another site, you are doing what is known as "Hot Linking". Every time someone views that embedded image, you are in effect, stealing bandwidth from the hosting site, for which someone else is paying.

So we need to keep that in mind and post a link to the image rather than embed it. Most good web hosting services have provisions to prevent "Hot Linking", but often the author of the web site isn't aware that this can be done and before he/she knows it, their personal and by default copyrighted images start showing up all over!