I think hotlinking is if you take the web address and copy it to load the image. (darsynia just explained it to me too if I'd have waited she'd have only had to do it once) If you save an image and then uploaded to another place, with it's own web address you aren't hotlinking. If people take your web address then and post it somewhere then they are hotlinking. I am also just testing to see if I've got it right. If not I'm really sorry darsynia I also apologize for plaguing you with questions. I do try to muddle it out on my own, but you know *waves hand expansively* everything. *grins*