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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrakeM" data-source="post: 11639288" data-attributes="member: 566442">As I understand it, not a rule but a strong suggestion.  I do it all the time, but as I said in another thread, if I direct-link a picture, I ALWAYS include the link to the site where I got it.  That way, I'm stealing a little bit of bandwidth but am also driving more eyeballs to the host site which I'm sure the owners would think is a good tradeoff. I agree that direct-linking just a picture with no source URL should be discouraged.  I'll also note that in the decade-plus I've been at this, the number of sites that allow direct-linking has grown (quite a lot) and the number of sites preventing it is shrinking.</blockquote>