15 Feb
2006
15 Feb
'06
5:30 a.m.
Its bad enough when people steal photo's from a site, its far worse when
they just link into your site and you get the pay the bandwidth costs so
someone can make some money, its not so bad when its one or two auctions
here or there... I had a huge spike in bandwidth usage one time and
started to investigate, I had found nearly 4 dozen Atari related
auctions running on ebay at any given time using stolen images directly
linking from my server, so I cut off access to the ebay and subset
domains from accessing my site. People on the net have gotten so used
to the "its free, its free!" mentality of the Internet, they forget that
somebody has to be paying these hosting and bandwidth bills someplace.
Curt
Doug Salot wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Roger Merchberger wrote:
I recently did this myself after somebody stole some images I was using
for an eBay listing.
You just need a simple rewrite rule. If you're running apache, you can
put something like the following in an .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
rewriteCond %{HTTP_referer} ^http://ripoff.com/pattern
rewriteRule \.*$ http://foo.bar/newimage.jpg
-- Doug
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or have
it
give different images if the Referrer for the request is his site.
That would be kewl, but I would have no idea how to set that up, and I know
my way around a webserver fairly well. Not a task for the "technologically
lighthearted." ;-) FAQs for that anywhere? ;-)
