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I am about to do something about it via the .htacces file and I saw that it is possible to insert another file that will be showed instead of the file the hotlinkers want.
Now my idea is to create a html with a google adsense banner as alternative file the images linked to.
Benefits will be:
A lot of clicks (the first weeks at least)
Save bandwidth
Protect my content
Teach the hotlinkers a lesson :-)
-But will google freak out? I can't find anything about this in the TOS. I am bit nervous, on the other hand, if other webmasters choose to present my content without permission I canīt be to blame - even if its google ads?
So if I grab an adsense code from another persons site, and present it on my site, I can get this person kicked out?
It doens't make sense.
Just like that.
I keep just one folder on one site for the images I wish to use 'cross-site'; all other images can only appear on the domain they are part of.
The alternative is to move yours periodically from folder to newfolder, replacing the old ones with a photo of your mother in law. or whatever.
Far more fun, but finicky work, as even with a script, you'll still need to update it regularly, to be sure to catch them. If the script is permanently placed, they'll give up, and that would be no fun at all!
like that.And use this image for hot linking.
Make a image that say "Visit www.mydomain.com to see this Image"
Or one which says "the owner of this site is a thieving git". I did that once; needless to say the owner of the offending site removed the hotlink tout-suite ;)
If the thief is using the pics on ebay, you'll need to use a porn picture - that gets the sale cancelled, and if it keeps happening, they lose their account.
About the only positive use for porn I've ever seen.
About the only positive use for porn I've ever seen
And you have seen a lot of porn then? lol :)
"Out of the closet and loving it! Free To Be Me" With a little gay pride logo...
I visited the site afterward and literally almost fell out of my chair laughing...
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MThiessen - love your solution and have stored it away for future reference :)
Personally I find it over the top to do, but If I'd be faced with a stubborn one linking too much of my images I'd not hesitate all that long to hijack his visitors to their pages toward a page on an obscure domain of mine that explains they visited a thieve. I'd most likely not add ads on the page, and more likely do a meta refresh towards e.g. google's search engine with a relevant keyword for them.
The reason being they are hotlinking you with an <img tag, and no matter how much you mod-rewite it still wont show a .html page. Your only recourse is replacing the image with either a 1x1 image to save bandwidth, or a giant 1500x1500 just to mess with them.
Be aware though if you rewite a 1x1 image to save Bwidth, if they linked back to you with that image, then you have just created a hidden link, so be careful.
Prove it to yourself, do this on one of your pages:
<img src="test.htm" width="100" height="100" border="0">
Make a test.htm page and upload it, then on test2.htm put the above code.
No try to view it. You get a broken image, not the page "test.htm"
If you mod-rewrite it, it's still going to not show up as an htm page, save it as test.jpg and try it, still won't work Sorry, it would be great if it could, but mod-rewrite to an htm file will not work.
I've done it in the past -by accident- due to a bad configuration on a set of rewrite rules, it did work at the time.
It seems from a first trial that at least Firefox (I've no easy access to a IE6) has fixed the issue in their most recent browser.
I'm not entirely sure what the code was (as I said it was a faulty config), but it did work at that time in up to date netscape and MSIE browsers.
