I simply don't feel absolute condemnation is the way to go here.
Topfong? They're a site run by invisible people on the other side of the world, notoriously disrespectful and harmful in how they go about hotlinking and fucking with sites and not good for a single penny to anyone that gets hotlinked on there.

JUB, on the other hand, is run by people we know, we've met, we interact with, who participate and engage with other webmasters on this board, who are responsive to emails and correspondence, who go to shows and conventions, who many of us have met on many occasions, and who have strong business and social relationships with many of the people on this board.

They also have a lot of high quality traffic.

So rather than assuming the worst and accusing them of anything on this board, why not email them and ask them about the hotlinking? Why not email them and ask about the opportunity to promote ones sites on their board and website? Why not see the benefits of potential exposure on a highly trafficked website run by people you know and are no more than a point and click away at any given time? Instead of just assuming this zero tolerance stance and firing off barbs at em, leaving room for no other interpretation than their being bad guys.

Why does a board like that automatically have to be the enemy? Can it not also be an extremely valuable resource? Don't get me wrong. I dislike hotlinking just as much as the next guy, and there's some messed up boards out there that thrive off of flaunting technical loopholes and sticking it to content producers. But I'm just not seeing any malicious intent on the part of JUB here. And don't see the zero tolerance approach as applying in this instance.

I'm a businessman. And I dislike hotlinking in that it interferes with my business. But when other aspects of a situation produce benefits that outweigh any potential damage coming from the hotlinking? The hotlinking just don't matter to me anymore. It's secondary. Cuz I'm a businessman.