Well, how fast it is depends on where they're linking the images from. If it's a fast server, and GN is relatively fast (or fast enough), then you wouldn't notice the extra loading time.
Other than that, I guess it's laziness. Also, if they have to pay for their bandwidth, any images that are hosted by another site mean that those at least aren't taxing their own bandwidth... so effectively they've gotten someone else to pay for part of their traffic.
I think in the next incarnation of goth.net I'm going to start running a html encoder along with stuff like 'no right click' and disabling text selection and the IE image toolbar.
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Date: 2003-04-18 12:08 pm (UTC)Other than that, I guess it's laziness. Also, if they have to pay for their bandwidth, any images that are hosted by another site mean that those at least aren't taxing their own bandwidth... so effectively they've gotten someone else to pay for part of their traffic.
I think in the next incarnation of goth.net I'm going to start running a html encoder along with stuff like 'no right click' and disabling text selection and the IE image toolbar.