What Does This Mean?
Another name for hotlinking: embedding an image or file from someone else's server on your own page, so the other site pays the bandwidth cost each time the page loads.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""The forum signature pulled the picture straight from his server, which he called bandwidth theft.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia lists bandwidth theft among the names for inline linking, alongside hotlinking, piggy-backing, direct linking and leeching. It describes the complaint as the source site bearing the bandwidth cost and possibly losing ad revenue, and says site owners can check the HTTP referer header to refuse or replace such requests. No dated first use found.
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