@panzade,
panzade wrote:so how does one avoid a seedgate?
It isn't easy, but here is the deal. First, how this works:
The sites really only have one tool against hotlinking, they check for the referrer header on the request to the image and if it says you are coming from another site they can block or rewrite the request. So the problem is that you found the image on their site, and it loaded in your cache. So when you post it here you still see the good cached one, and not the anti-hotlinking one but everyone else who doesn't have the image cached will see something different.
So you'd have to disable or clear cache between finding the image, and previewing it to see if it will display on a2k. But that takes as much time as just transloading the image to an image host that actually supports hotlinking, so you may be better off just always loading to sites like imageshack.us and imgur as a matter of course.
In imgur's case you can even get a Firefox plugin where you can rightclick an image anywhere and upload it to them, so it's actually just as easy to do as it would to skip that step entirely because you just right click, upload and copy their url.