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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:01 pm  Post subject: Dissapearing covers
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Recently there are many red X's on the forums where the movie covers should be. The linked sites change addresses, remove the covers or simply disappear. That's why I think we should use IMDB, All Movie Guide and Amazon (especially for large pics) whenever it is possible, to avoid this. Perhaps we could even mention this in the forum rules. What do you think?


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:46 pm  Post subject:
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You pull all your pictures from one source and you might attract attention you do not want...

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Hmm, I haven't seen (m)any red-x's lately.
But yes, I think we should use IMDB, All Movie Guide and Amazon pics always when possible. But for some rare covers/pics poster should fix, as soon as possible, he's/her's post when/if red-x appears (man that was lame answer... slashes :mrgreen:)

Maybe you've noticed. I often like to use pics...

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I always use amazon, and i'd recommend and request that everyone uses it, amazon.co.uk or .com

All the frontpage uses them. Don't use imdb if you can help it.

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Why Amazon? Is there a special reason?


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:34 pm  Post subject:
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wargand wrote:
Why Amazon? Is there a special reason?


They allow, infact encourage remote linking and stealing their bandwidth as to advertise their products. The more people see it the more people want to buy it I guess. They will never change the url of their pictures because people have links to that product on their websites and that will harm sales, and they will get complaints from affiliates... infact the affiliate programme will cease to work. It is also very stable. As for monitoring bandwidth, they will most likely monitor usage, but wtf do they care, they make shit loads and there will be loads of sites that get much larger hits, so they won't see or care about the little sites. All movie posters are the same deal, they are infact from another retail site :)

IMDB request you don't remote link and don't want you stealing their bandwidth. They take lots of measures to ensure that it isn't too simple to steal pics too, sometimes you will get a messaging saying "Don't remote link blah blah"

This is why amazon.com, amazon.de and amazon.co.uk are the best choices :) BTW, sometimes posters can be found on one of them, that aren't on the others.

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