They forced the late actree Jang Ja Yeon to have a sex.

But now, pretty much every damn website has ads and other financial mechanisms that can generate funds for the owner. But unless someone visits the website, or clinks through banners, the owner really doesn't make money.

So like I said, be honest. Don't say stealing bandwidth, although I'm sure hotlinking does use up bandwidth. Unless you're getting seriously /. increased bandwidth represents negligible cost, if any, to the site owner. In fact, if you fall into bandwidth overage for something as minor and expected as this, you probably should be looking for a different plan.

So be honest and say, "I rely on certain advertising/banner activity to help fund my website. If you just hotlink and do not provide link back to my site, I can lose revenue." Just complaining about bandwidth just make you sound petty and dishonest, like complaining about air people breathe in your house.

The "stealing my bandwidth" argument might carry weight with me if — I saw a lot of sites crashed all the time. But you rarely run across a site that has been shut down for exceeding its monthly bandwidth. And the few times I've seen it occur on the K-blogs, it was always connected to some other issue. I've never run across a blog or site that said it had been shut down temporarily because too many people were hotlinking images it hosts.

So I have a hard time taking offense at hotlinking seriously.

Give how routinely it is done, I'd have to think that this is a minority.

The image could have been copied without crediting the source (D-Addicts) if it was just a picture of her, since it effectively belongs to nobody.

When you hotlink you're essentially stealing someone else's bandwidth. So yes, it is considered offensive (doubly so when you have your own server).

This casting couch business is really depressing, and it makes me wonder if some of the actresses I like have gone through it.

Anyway, my primary interest in this case is like I said before – the chaebol angle. How much will they be able to keep this from touching them? I'd imagine very well – considering how well they have kept green environmental movement from being used against them by the public media.

Hearing this story, I also thought of a note over at the new blog Big Hollywood.

It is a site for conservatives in the entertainment industry to speak out about how overwhelmingly liberal (and closed minded) the American entertainment industry is.

One comment from a guy in the industry was about a female friend of his that had told him stories about the same thing this Korean actress went through.

I also thought of this talk show about behind-the-scenes in Hollywood that had a French prostitute on. She talked about going to wild parties at a director's house "everybody would know" and about being disgusted at how some female actresses, again people" everyone would know if I said their names", were made to do stuff. She said she was a whore and got paid for that but it pissed her off to see these major Hollywood starlets I guess degraded.