A picture is worth a thousand words, the saying goes, and sometimes you need an image to express yourself in ways that are simply not possible with text alone. But hosting images at your own site is expensive, and just ganking someone else's image is seriously bad online etiquette (and a great way to find that picture you hotlinked has been mysteriously transformed from a cute little puppy into the Goatse guy.)

For years, people have turned to Imageshack for their image hosting needs, but Imageshack only accepts images less than 1024K, and popular images or highly-trafficked forums (like Fark, for example) quickly max out the limited free bandwidth Imageshack offers.

Enter All you can upload from CNET. With this newly-launched service, there are no limits on bandwidth or image size, and you don't ever need to login, create an account, or do much more than choose your image, click a button, copy some code, and impress the world with your crazy photoshop skills. As a bonus, you can even have your image automatically resized, from a small thumbnail, to several different sizes commonly used on blogs.

You are restricted to a few common formats (.jpg, .gif and .png) and you must own (or have permission to use) the image you upload, which will be as hard for CNET to enforce as their other restriction: no pornography.

However, if all of this sounds too good to be true, that's because it is . . . sort of. When you upload an image into their library, you grant CNET one of those awesome licenses to do whatever they want with your image, for the rest of eternity anywhere in the universe. Once you remove the image from the system (there's no clear way indicated to do this if you use the free service) you cancel the license. This is probably something the average MySpace or Xanga user won't care about, but before you upload images, make sure you're cool with them possibly ending up in advertising, on billboards, or tattooed across some attention whore, without getting anything in return for it.