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This is illegal, as several people have pointed out in this thread
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Naw. Several people have said that they think it might be, or ought to be, in their little corner of the world...or something like that.
The one link provided in this thread was to a United States statute criminalizing various unauthorized access to or damage to United States government computers. It would probably take a year of litigation to determine whether hotlinking an image on a US govt computer "damaged" it within the meaning of the statute -- but I doubt porn.ru is on a US govt. server so who cares?
Nothing so far posted in this thread has linked to any evidence or credible argument that hotlinking of public images on a russian server by a dutch person using a server in the United States is illegal. Y'all are within yer rights to say it ought to be, but stop saying it IS until you know what you are talking about.