How To Fight Back Against Dirty Image and Bandwidth Thieves
Alright, now I’m not a bad guy. A bunch of my affiliates use my images straight from my sales pages to link to my products. I have no problem with that at all.
What I do have a problem with is people straight linking to my images and using up my bandwidth without asking me first.
It’s not a difficult process to save the image to your own hard drive and upload it to your own website.
So, tonight I was strolling through my logs and saw that someone kept referring people to my site. The problem is that they were only hitting the same image over and over again.
This is the image they were hitting:
So, I check the page and it has my image sitting on it. It wasn’t some geopages site either, this was an actual website with its own domain. What that tells me is that this dumbass is just lazy.
So now, this image is what shows on his page:
Enjoy!
Hi Ross,
I know the feeling of this and love this idea. I contacted my server support to find out if there was a way to block individuals like this from right clicking or some other way. They informed me that at this time this was not available. I still look for a way but with the lack of programming skills, not sure I will find an answer.
For now though I am going to start
with this idea you have here.
Thank You
Brian Lawrence
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