Ebay Rips and bandwidth theft

[dude521]

How do i keep ebay peeps from ripping pages and pics. Ebay doesnt seem to give a hoot. Im getting tons of rips.

davy

[Easy_Coder]

ban the ebay ip block from getting to your site.

[brakthepoet]

You can sign up for eBay's Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) program [pages.ebay.com]. If an ebay seller is using your content without permission, you can report them to eBay through VeRO. eBay will shut down the auctions and notify the seller the general reasons why.

Yes, it's a pain to have to sign up, but I've never had it fail in shutting down auctions. Using eBay's VeRO program, I've reported several sellers for hotlinking and for copying our widget descriptions. Each time the auctions were shut down within 24 hours. I never bother contacting sellers directly. Most of them are absolute maniacs, and they will deny doing anything wrong despite proof of their theft.

[Longhaired Genius]

Put a file named .htaccess in you website's root directory containing the following:

# begin .htaccess code

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ebay
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# end .htaccess code

That should do it.

[dude521]

I pasted this into the file

# begin .htaccess code

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ebay
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# end .htaccess code

This caused an internal server error and stopped all of my pages from resolving. Do you have a cut an paste solution.

David

[dude521]

Found the solution that seems to partially work

[devwebpro.com...]

I cant get the stealing.gif to work though. Would be a nice trick. Any ideas.

Yours,
David