In reality, it barely makes a difference if you want to avoid hotlinking (and that has other bad privacy privacy implications, now all your users load bad content).
Law enforcement makes no difference between proxying, caching and storing indefinitely. At least not during all the steps that precede your hardware being seized.
In reality, it barely makes a difference if you want to avoid hotlinking (and that has other bad privacy privacy implications, now all your users load bad content).
Law enforcement makes no difference between proxying, caching and storing indefinitely. At least not during all the steps that precede your hardware being seized.