It may be hard coded, but that's still going to require someone to figure out how to get around that when adding it to a mapping program. I think it's designed to prevent map programs that use single function URL's from accessing it. I don't think they expect to stop everyone, just those who don't have the means or ability to circumvent said anti-leaching technology.

In other words, the bad guys will still get access, but us legit users won't. Ah well. Of course, there's a download script floating around the forums somewhere built with Python that could easily be hacked to take advantage of this multifunction URL. Then you'd just run the script and let it do it's work.

The only downside is, someone needs to adapt it to run multiple strings or else child processes, because the way it is now, it's too bloody slow. I'm running it now on my utility server and I'm closing on the 3rd day and I've only cleared 650,000 images out of some 6.5 million I need to complete my database. T_T