myspace.com and bandwidth theivery | 8:32 am | 2 February 2006
I’d never had a problem with people snarfing images before – using images I’ve posted here on their own pages, but linking to them directly rather than uploading them to their own server. I don’t check my stats too often, and just saw a huge traffic spike from various MySpace accounts. “Wow! I’m popular! I must have fans!” thought I… ha! Hardly. People seem fond of the Eddie Izzard and boob-tube sweater (NSFW) pictures. Too bad, babies, ’cause I just finally got around to adding some juju to my .htaccess file to stop that shit.
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:34 am
Good job! In my Webalizer report that I run on my site logs, I group all the sites that link to images on my site(s) under the category “losers”.
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:19 am
Thanks! What I’d really like to do now is make it so they still get an image, but it’s something like Mr. T with a “special message” about why their stupid linked image didn’t work.
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:58 pm
I recently had the same problem.
I believe myspace.com is about to get baninated from my site. Probably Xanga, too, as I’ve been noticing some thievery from there as well.
Damn kids. Stay off my (web) lawn!
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Ha! Excellent. I remember that. I did change the boobtoob image for a while, but I wanted to be able to use it, too. Just put this in your .htaccess file -
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^https?://(www\.)?example.com/" ok=1SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^$" ok=1
<FilesMatch "\.(gif|png|jpe?g)$">
order allow,deny
allow from env=ok
</FilesMatch>
and change “example” to “czelticgirl” – I got it from here and it worked a trick!