An enterprising URL hacker reverse engineered the calling URLs for Amazon images and came up with this guidebook for pulling your own hacked images directly from the Amazon servers. The snippet I have here is a local copy, but the image I copied it from was a live pull.

Enjoy this while you can, because I can’t believe it’ll last. All it will take is the first guy who decides to slap a fraudulent 50% off badge on his site in order to make a few affiliate sales to the gullible, and then Amazon will start checking the referrers on the incoming URLs. Which is a shame, because it’s nice to know how to strip those DVD images off of the movie posters.