# Download Remote Images with Referer (plugin possible?)

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/download-remote-images-with-referer-plugin-possible/260027 "2023-03-30T22:08:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 8:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/download-remote-images-with-referer-plugin-possible/260027/14 "2023-04-01T08:20:38Z")

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> [@shyguy](#):
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> i may not own the rights to all of them, but my users do

Not necessarily true of course, but you could at least assume that your users have given you a license at the moment they posted it on your forum, so it would be their problem and not yours. So your use case for this is legitimate, I’m 100% convinced of that.

But no sane open source project would risk getting ex parte taken down because of some legal argument, even if they are / turn out to be right and the complainer is not. So I think the import script is the right place for this.

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