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This was a method talked about on the planet from memory to combat lazy people stealing links and reposting as their own on other forums.

If your links are sprayed about online the chances of a DMCA take down increase significantly

Any caps that showed up with another forums address on it usually got removed swiftly

It was the only method that worked most of the time on active forums

Cloned versions of VEF another story entirely