Originally posted by tomkatzid
What does all this mean???? I have a little animation on mine too, I put it on imagestation to make it show up here. But would love to know more, thanks katz
There is absolutely no problem with your cute little animation since you put it on your own space. But if you don't do that, and reference the pic directly off someone else's webspace two results might occur. Either the picture doesn't show up because the webserver you are trying to take the picture from doesn't allow off-site/hot linking (like the majority of free hosters these days such as Geocities) or the pic will work but you'll be using up someone else's bandwith. Bandwith is the certain amount of usage a website can use per month. Going over your allowed bandwith amount can be expensive for people who pay for their webhosting, so that is why you should never "borrow" anyone else's webspace.

For example, some people took pictures of my pets and put them on an online SIM game, claiming my pets to be theirs with bogus names and so on. And they did most certainly not ask for permission nor did they even upload the pics to their own space. That really messed up my bandwith and got me pissed off, and what's worse is that when I emailed them did just ignored me and so did their free webhoster

...I hope that explained it for you, I know I went a little bit of tangent LOL