Beware of people stealing your site graphics! - Page 2

Stephen Davies · **Re: Beware of people stealing your site graphics! -** 12-08-2006, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bailey

Indeedy, a little bit of .htaccess trickery can inspire a whole afternoon of fun

... thereby allowing you to keep using your images w/o changes to your own pages, but loading totally evil stuff on any image called by a particular referrer... oh the tormet I have unleashed on my own SW's! *giggle*

Those who host on a cPanel server, you should have a feature available to you called "hotlink protection." If you enable this, the bandwidth thief will get those dreaded broken-image red X's on their pages.

No, it's not nearly as fun as evil graphics, but it does protect your bandwidth bill.

Bailey

Thanks for the info Bailey. I didn't know about this hotlink protection feature... I'll have to do some research on this.

Ravedesigns · **Re: Beware of people stealing your site graphics! -** 12-08-2006, 10:48 PM

lol - I like your "Don't get mad...just get even" approach Stephen, but you're being too kind! You should replace those images with something more like this if you really want to smack him upside the head!

Stephen Davies · **Re: Beware of people stealing your site graphics! -** 12-08-2006, 11:10 PM

Thanks for the pic Steve, but it has to be brought down to a 14x14 sized pic. I tried it with Photoshop, but it looks like a red dot.

Domain Name Guy · **Re: Beware of people stealing your site graphics! -** 12-12-2006, 12:45 AM

Someone in another forum posted he simply changed the picture to a donkey's
behind with the words "copyright infringement".

And yup, Bailey's solution is the simpler one.

no-frills · **Re: Beware of people stealing your site graphics! -** 12-12-2006, 02:46 PM

That's hilarious

Although this smiley

is hardly the best choice. Too bad you're limited with the size on the graphic... Otherwise something like this would be a lot better ->