shortbus1662 - 4:39 pm on Jan 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

shouldn't it be the responsibility of the website owner to make sure the file does not play when linked directly to?

I mean, otherwise it's going to be scooped up by google, etc. and then they too will be in violation.

I'm not sure how it's done, but cannot the website verify the referrer before serving up a page?

For instance, someone had posted a link to an article on a related topic on one of my forums. The link to the article which was posted near the top of the page, before the article was a redirect from google to the article page.

I took out the redirect and pasted the link directly to the page.

Once I did that, the content would not show and it asked me to register.

I realized that they were allowing only google traffic to read the page and no other referred user was allowed to view the article. Once the article page was navigated away from, the visitor was again asked to register.

I reincluded the google search url back into the page and the link worked again.

Is this not a similar circumstance?