good point but also, we are all here to experiment too. Imgur is the Old Way. For example, an idea like this could spread into the STEEM inflection itself; imagine having images posted on steemimg.com that get paid when thy are linked to by other posters, even those not on steemit.com. I could see how this could become the de facto way a free market allocates capital to copyrighted material, for example (i.e., a previously copyrighted image getting uploaded eventually gets downvoted).
I'm not saying this is currently possible, but it is certainly plausible, and it's these kinds of paradigms that make me excited about the Steem community looking forward.
Essentially we need to get images on the blockchain. If that day comes I will make sure to get all images hosted on steemimg.com linked over correctly. Something we should be looking into.
(i.e., a previously copyrighted image getting uploaded eventually gets down voted)
also cool