Global Security Watch > Hotlink and Targeting

http://www.flipthedolphin.com [flipthedolphin] I’ve done so because I reached 80% of my monthly bandwidth and looking at the stats it seems that many were just linking directly to my old blog’s images (like the ones of Ar*a Giov*nni or Ta*my Pl*nte).

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http://www.ninme.com [ninme] Fame is a Double Edged Sword: So, sorry leeches, hotlink... Yes, I said “Fame.” Peter just emailed me and said, “Have you looked at your stats lately?

http://www.onedigitallife.com [one digital life] Another record month for onedigitallife.com: someone builds a page with a story about an iMac, that has an associated image, but instead of hosting the image themselves they pull the image from my server. This is bad because they are using my bandwidth, instead of their own.

Spamula.nethttp://www.spamula.net [Spamula.net] Giornale Nuovo: Bandwidth, Hotlink Protection, etc.: Rather than upgrade my hosting-plan again, I’ve decided to try economising on bandwidth by cutting out the category indexes I never used, and by introducing hotlink protection. When I first started writing on-line, I did a certain amount of hotlinking myself, and so I can hardly resent others making use of my bandwidth in the same way: also, very few of the images here are truly my own, most having originated in books, or on other websites.

[Forum.statcounter.com] StatCounter Free Invisible Web Tracker and Counter :: View topic ...: htaccess file alone and just one line of a blocked IP, and no hotlink protection explicitly enabled by me in Cpanel on that site, looking at the hotlink protection function, it then shows it as enabled and in the box for the list of sites allowed to hotlink I see terms (not sites) in brackets, coming from the anti-referrer spam list. This is most puzzling to me.

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