Re: Hotlinking Images

Regarding my post about a site hotlinking one of my images, she's done it again. Yesterday I changed an image that she had hotlinked to that of a hairy arse and then changed the name of the original image. I wake up this morning to see that she has linked to that new image! Granted she has given a link back to my site and she must have read my post about the subject yet she continues to hotlink.

It's not just my site that she is hotlinking images from. There are a few from Growabrain and one from Sushiesque.

When will this girl learn? If I could be bothered I would change the image again but obviously that doesn't get the message across.

Comments

[Rhys]

I'm surprised that typepad doesn't give you the option of denying hotlinking.

This article from ALA describes how to stop it if you running php. It's a very similar route to asp(.net) http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hotlinking/

[joanne]

What a silly twat.

[Lynne]

If you have access to .htaccess file I'll give you the code I use on another site. you can have it redirect all your images someplace else. I used to have my images redirect to a barney image on the PBS site. Now they link to a little button calling the peson a bandwidth stealing a$$hat.

[sushiesque]

I never notice these things. thanks for the heads up.

[Andrew Denny]

My first thought is, does she know it's infra-dig to do this? Have you asked her to stop doing it? She's doing it to everyone. Does she know what unfair trouble she's causing?

Then I thought, has she ever been served with a cease&desist order to copy photos directly to her own site, the way you were?

I was once chastised for borrowing pics for my own blog, even though the pic was to illustrate a link to the originating site.

Perhaps your 'mooning' pic wasn't offensive enough? Make it something outrageously offensive - even fatwa-inspiringly blasphemous.

[Robert]

Maybe she just doesn't know about photobucket, flickr, imageshack, etc...

Lady, if you are reading this, get a free account and download your pictures there. And common courtesy states that you should reference your findings so that others can also enjoy where you've been.

[Andre]

What are you complaining about?
First off, by linking to her, you give her website pagerank. If you hate her that much, you wouldn't have done that.
Secondly, all you need is a .htaccess file that with two lines of code to prevent hotlinking.
After leaking about 5GB/month due to hotlinking I excluded everyone from myspace,friendster and xanga from hotlinking to my wallpapers directory and give them a banner instead.
Bloggers on free hosting sites are the main hotlinkers to my site.
I estimate a couple of GB/month after I excluded them from the larger pictures.
I will roll out my new site soon. All references will have changed then (as I moved to a content managed system).
Will be interesting to see how the bandwidth will drop then.
The main reason I do not totally like to prevent hotlinking is images.google.com which gets me lots of traffic.
If I were to write everyone who links to my pictures I would do nothing else.

Get used to it. You put a picture online. People will hotlink it.

Andre

[me]

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