Well, speaking as someone who has almost 800 posts on JUB's board and has been active there for over a year, I'd say the majority of posters on there understand how uncool hotlinking is and discourage it, though as I mentioned before there are some who seem to think it's their right to hotlink images and that attitude is full of shit, far as I'm concerned.

But at the same time I see a lot of the board's most active members go out of their way to ensure they're hotlinking from their own webspace. Copyright issues are something else entirely, as many of these surfers obviously don't have license for that content. But at the same time, the only way to cut that practice out is... what? Take down any and all gay surfer boards in the world? I don't think that does anyone any good. I think the guys that run JUB go out of their way to make sure it's a board that encourages participation and entertainment as well as respect legality as much as those 2 things can be compatible.

I mean it works two ways... xstr8guy, for example, has a huge banner sig promoting his own website that shows up with every post he makes. So one the one hand he knows the site gets lots of traffic and wants to tap in to some of that through his participation in the board. Yet at the same time condemns the site for having the kind of activity and traffic he wants access to in the first place?

I'd imagine that were anyone to notice their images being hotlinked and requested of John and Bryce to edit those posts and take em out, they'd be on top of it ASAP and get that done. As much as I'm not fond of hotlinking, I also don't wanna see a great board that can be a resource to both surfers and webmasters get shut out because of something like this. Attidude's like Corny's aside, there's a lotta gray area in here that can be worked within where everyone's happy.

my 2 cents.