Previous Post + Video Linking

Of course many people will be familiar with the concept of linking in images and videos from other sites(places like YouTube make it really easy) but it will be interesting to see how many of those links begin to break as they look more closely at the copyrighted stuff that is linked in.

So it is easy to make a MySpace site with loads of content because you just pull it in from YouTube and elsewhere. But that might change. We must wait and see.

Something that MySpacers also do, which is not a good thing, is link to images and videos from sites that don't want them to. This puts a strain on the servers of the hosting sites, and may run up a bill for the unwitting owner of the web space, who suddenly finds loads of data being downloaded from their site because of this. I've seen quite a few complaints from site owners about this and one tactic they sometimes use it to then substitute the image file that has been lined to with another file of the same name that isn't quite so nice. Something suitably offensive... but even then the MSpacers (and others) don't always notice it would seem...