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Bandwidth theft is a label that some apply to the use of bandwidth in potentially unintended ways. The label may refer to unanticipated uses of typically public services such as web and email delivery. It may also refer to direct use of the bandwidth through unauthorised connections to networks or through the infection of machines with malware.
Linking
Web pages may link to other web pages using hyperlinks. The hyperlink object allows a viewer to click on a link to reach web pages or images on another webserver. The site owner supplies bandwidth as a gift, or to sell something, etc. A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. ...
The term web server can mean one of two things: a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers; a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents. ...
This page is about the computer software giFT. For other uses, see gift (disambiguation) giFT stands for giFT: Internet File Transfer. ...
It is possible to use HTML tags in a webpage to request files from another owner's site (webserver) via inline linking or transclusion. Some people consider this to be bandwidth theft, but others disagree since these are requests that the other site has the option to fulfill or ignore. In HTML, inline linking is the placing of a linked object, often an image, from one site in a page belonging to a second site. ...
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// Analog For analog signals, which can be mathematically viewed as a function of time, bandwidth is the width, measured in hertz, of a frequency range in which the signals Fourier transform is nonzero. ...
Theft (also known as stealing) is in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ...
Fulfilling requests from inline links or direct links may not be desirable for the owner of the other site; the owner may only wish to supply the file and its corresponding bandwidth if that file is viewed embedded in its own webpage. This may be motivated by finances since serving the file outside its intended context may not help to earn money to compensate for the bandwidth cost.
Some consider this 'remote loading' is unfair. If there are no copyright restrictions, it would be considered fairer if the owner of the first site puts copies of the embedded files on his or her own site. If there are copyright restrictions, the alternative would be to link to the other site, though some would still consider that undesirable if it was deep linking. For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. ...
Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is the act of placing on a Web page a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image within another website, as opposed to that websites main or home page. ...
Some argue that the act of linking cannot be construed as theft since theft requires unauthorized usage. The underlying protocol for web pages requires the requests to be made by the browser. In response, the server may send out the requested object. If the server has served the request, it may be argued that a case for theft cannot be made as there was consent, even if the intent was clearly to deprive the owner of rightful use. In computing, a protocol is a convention or standard that controls or enables the connection, communication, and data transfer between two computing endpoints. ...
Theft (also known as stealing) is in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ...
Consent (as a term of jurisprudence) is a possible justification against civil or criminal liability. ...
The situation is further complicated by the ability to configure servers to prevent serving of objects based upon the request. However, some Internet Service Providers now have rules regarding bandwidth theft which make it a violation of their Terms of Use to use bandwidth from another server via their service. An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ...
See also Framing (World Wide Web). On a web page, framing means that a website can be organized into frames. ...
Spam Spam is a colloquial reference to unsolicited electronic mail. A KMail folder full of spam emails collected over a few days. ...
Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ...
Some consider spam a form of bandwidth theft because the sender, who frequently intends to make money from spamming, does not pay for the bandwidth that delivers the mail from the ISP to the recipient.
Unauthorized connection Bandwidth can be stolen by an unauthorized connection to a network. Typically, this would be through a Wi-Fi router that is left insecure (though some people intend for others to freely connect to their routers). One could also make an unauthorized wired connection if they had physical access to an open port on a bridge, hub, or router. This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. ...
Advertisements Some people consider advertisements on web sites to qualify as bandwidth theft. Again, as with spam, they are not authorised by the recipient, and the originator may or may not knowingly place them to deprive the recipient of bandwidth. Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...
Malware Software can be installed to one's computer that could steal bandwidth. A common example is malware that is used to send spam. This sort of bandwidth theft would have more consequence, as it creates the superficial appearance that the owner of said computer is an actual spammer. Spamming is the use of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages in bulk. ...
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