i was looking at my stats report for my website www.eakland.net and i noticed this website had alot of refurals.... http://www.toyotakr4x4.com.tw/module..._id=18&forum=4 well scrolling through i see they have posted a bunch of pics of my 4runner... along with a couple other 4runenrs that look familar. is there a way besides changing the file names that i can keep other sites from stealing my bandwidth?

 

Id be having some fun with them. Some nice nekkid fat women to those file names should do. You get the idea!

 

Yep, replace your pics temporarily with some XXX porn.
I have seen it done before where Ebay sellers will link to someone else's pics.

 

ya i've posted those pics here wiht the same name.. and i dont want to have nasty porn posted on YT and then get banned...and i am too lazy to hunt down every image i;ve posted (ttora, YT, marlin, etc) and rename them.... but i might have to.

 

There's a way you can prevent people from linking to your pics. Not sure how, but it can be done.

Did a quick Google search:

http://www.webmasterstop.com/124.html
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml

Apparently it just requires some .htaccess configuration. No big deal at all.

 

Most server's Control Panels allow you to disable hot-linking.

You can selectively authorize certain URLs to hot-link to your site. (like yotatech)

The icon on cpanel (a very common control panel software) looks like this:

 

Is yours the red one all covered in mud?

 

sweet i'll activate the hotlink protection when i get home and am not on a work computer so i can have the default image some nasty granny porn or something with it saying quit stealing my bandwidth ###holes! over the top.


yes mine is the muddy one. more pics http://www.eakland.net/pics.htm

 

Unless you configure sites to allow, it'll block 'em all... meaning you won't be able to hotlink yourself either.

 

Anti-leech code in your .htaccess file will work in many circumstances if you are on an Apache box.

Of course, you should take a look at how your images are being used. Sometimes it's in a complimentary way and it's worth eating the bandwidth. I generally only block if someone is claiming the photos/rig as their own or is using my images in a way I don't approve of.

 

Pssst... I think they are talking about on the site mentioned in the first post, the one that is leeching bandwidth.

 

oh, that would make more sense. I thought he might have been commenting on the comment Chris made about the banner pics.

 

anyone remember the time I found pics of SizzleChest truck on Ebay and he changed them to the XXX Fat chick pic? That rocked!!