Comments on: Free Website Marketing! Try Hotlinked-Image

by: demonsurfer

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:01:53 +0000

bah.. didn't display very well. first line:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?YOURWEBSITE\.com/ [NC]

next line: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?SOMEALLOWEDWEBSITE\.com/ [NC] next line: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ next line: RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /path relative to htaccess file/ALTERNATEIMAGE.jpe [L]

by: demonsurfer

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:55:54 +0000

use a .htaccess file - much easier. eg:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?YOURWEBSITE\.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?SOMEALLOWEDWEBSITE\.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/blogpics/bandwidththeft.jpe [L]

The first line obviously means you don’t block your own site, the second is an example of adding another website to allow them to hotlink your images, and that last line determines which type of files are blocked and the image that is displayed instead when someone tries to hotlink one of those files (note extension is .jpe).

Save this file as .htaccess (yes, it starts with a .) and place it in your main directory - anything in that directory (including other directories within it) will be dealt with.

by: nortypig

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:49:07 +0000

serving them your ads and paying for the bandwidth isn’t so bad at all. Since I did it on MySpace accounts who were sucking my bandwidth by hotlinking to images my traffic has increased somewhat significantly…

i just never liked paying for their visual enjoyment lol.

Great stuff, one more for the good guys Dont’ get even get advertising.

by: Cracker

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:20:02 +0000

i mean their site

by: Cracker

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:19:35 +0000

and codding it with php is not a complete sollution as any 1 can save that page upload images on any image hosting site and than any body can publish it on that site.

by: Cracker

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:15:57 +0000

Actually that article was posted by my friend on http://www.thila.ropage.com/ and he informed me about this article
and than i posted that article on http://desi-tek.com . I was not aware about the origin of the content. i just modified that article and added your name and your site url in source. And i apologise for not adding source as i was not aware.

by: Lars Koudal

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:12:06 +0000

I’ve had a similar experience, but decided to use another approach, to shame the guy into submission. I tried contacting friendster.com, but have yet to recieve a response.

I posted about it here: http://www.koudal.dk/hotlink-revenge-dont-steal-bandwidth

by: Fernando Hal

Sun, 28 May 2006 04:51:16 +0000

Hi, thanks all.
I’m going to try the php script thingy, but I’m new in php, so might take some time to learn.