[TeMPOraL]

How do you make money off hot linking? I thought hot linking was the thing users want to be able to do, that's inherently impossible to monetize.

[marksomnian]

Which is why you directly charge the users for it. cf. Photobucket

[TeMPOraL]

Which is what makes people not want to use the service, and switch to whoever allows hotlinking at the moment. That's how imgur came to be.