Jan 08 2006

Added anti-leeching protection to my site

Tags: , Filed under: Written in Englishhugo @ 9:51

I don’t like preventing people from linking to things on the Web. However, looking at my logs, I keep seeing people stealing both my photos (using them without asking or acknowledging them) and bandwidth (the most stolen photo uses more than 250MB of bandwidth each month).

So I decided to prevent people from linking to my photos. I’m sure it won’t stop people from stealing them, but at least I won’t be paying for it.

3 Responses to “Added anti-leeching protection to my site”

  1. Hugo's blog says:

    Anti-leeching version 2: image annotation and HTTP caching…

    A few months ago, I set up anti-leeching measures on my site as I was tired of people stealing my photos, both because they never ask, and because I was providing free bandwidth to all the MySpace junkies. I was looking where the request was coming fro…

  2. Robert says:

    You know all I ever hear is people crying about is someone stole my
    pictures try useing something called a your brain if you do not want
    something stolen then why make it availabe on the internet first place?

    Hear is a simple Question If took a bundle of money with a note tied to
    it saying (please do not steal) then left it out all night on the curb
    and next moring it is gone then who truly is the fool The idot who
    follow instructions or me?

    Ps: this text box is not working correctly when you get to the end of it
    just stops until you manualy move the cursor.
    also the email is a fake so do not bother
    Have a Nice Day!

  3. Gabe says:

    Good luck with the non stealing thing. I tried to use a code that people need to copy when copying work from my blog to theirs and a popup that reminds them of copyright law if they try to bypass it. Just because it’s on the internet, it’s not free. http://copyright.gov.

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