Bandwidth thieves, I don't like them


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       #1

    Bandwidth thieves, I don't like them


    I have a nice drive-in movie theatre web site. Lots of people over the past year or so linking to my images via tumblr, or their personal web sites.

    One was even pretending the content was his !

    My web host has worked with me, but it keeps on happening. I add IP addresses to my .htaccess file. It slows them slightly, but they keep taking my work.

    Here is the site, I may take it down if this keeps up.

    http://www.drivein-jim.net/
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    Thread Starter
       #2

    Or, if you have some means for me to block .ru I would love to learn it.
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  3. Posts : 51,384
    Windows 11 Workstation x64
       #3

    JimJoe said:
    I have a nice drive-in movie theatre web site. Lots of people over the past year or so linking to my images via tumblr, or their personal web sites.

    One was even pretending the content was his !

    My web host has worked with me, but it keeps on happening. I add IP addresses to my .htaccess file. It slows them slightly, but they keep taking my work.

    Here is the site, I may take it down if this keeps up.

    Drive-In Jim's Drive-in Movie Theater Site

    Have a search for anti hotlink via htaccess
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       #4

    How would I do that ? I have a number of IP addresses in my htaccess file...

    My domain has anti-hotlink running, but it doesn't seem to stop them.
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  5. Posts : 3,322
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64
       #5

    Have you got this:

    Code:
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)example.com/.*$ [NC]
    RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|zip|rar|mp3|flv|swf|xml|php|png|css|pdf)$ - [F]
    In your .htaccess? (Where example.com is your domain.)
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  6. Posts : 402
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       #6

    My rewrite rule is different.

    Code:
    RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|txt|zip)$ - [F,NC]
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       #7

    I'll try yours and see what happens.
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  8. Posts : 402
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       #8

    Bandwidth usage has dropped way off. If it stays down, it will be a great improvement.

    Thanks !
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  9. Posts : 402
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       #9

    Everlong said:
    Have you got this:

    Code:
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)example.com/.*$ [NC]
    RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|zip|rar|mp3|flv|swf|xml|php|png|css|pdf)$ - [F]
    In your .htaccess? (Where example.com is your domain.)
    I would give you rep, but I don't see any way to do that.

    Thanks !
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