Hotlinking - What is it?
Hotlinking, inline linking, remote linking and many other terms are used to describe a way taking images, or other files and embedding it directly into a website. In other words, unauthorized use of someone else’s bandwidth. Hotlinked files are files Not stored on your own server. For example, a hotlinked image code would look something like this:
<img scr="http://www.notmysite.com/rel="nofollow"not-my-image.jpg">
The difference between hotlinking & linking to a web site:
When people link directly to a media file (gif, jpg, png, mov etc.), the webmaster of the original site has to pay the fees. When someone links to a page on that same website, the webmaster still pays fees but the content is shown in the form the designer (and copyright holder) wished, and they may be able to cover costs by displaying advertising on the page.
Super simply put… Hot Linking to media files = bad… Linking to pages = good 
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