Yet another thread about dealing with hot linkers

[Head Boy]

It's probably well over a year since I did any submitting, so I don't have too much of a problem with hotlinkers. I'd like to start submitting free sites soon, and I'd like to take some precautions against hotlinking. My idea is to throw up a replacement image that contains a text message like "Get some hot ass at www.AssKey.com" AssKey is one of my unused domains of course.

Do you think this is a good idea? Bearing in mind the type of sites that hotlink images, do you think I should promote email and free join sponsors on the AssKey site? Do you think that www.AssKey.com is a good domain for this type of project?

Sorry to ask so many questions, and thanks for reading this far. :)

[swedguy]

My idea is to throw up a replacement image that contains a text message like "Get some hot ass at www.AssKey.com"
BINGO! Just make it a good image and an easy domain and you're good to go.

[chilihost]

yup that is a great way to deal with hotlinkers. you can even make it easier by dropping the www part, nice and short and easy to type!

cheers,
Luke

[Agent]

Maybe even throw some text on there stating that the hotlinking site is doing something very very bad by implying that they may be crooked and the surfer may not want to be there. Make the surfer feel as if they should not be comfortable at that site.

Pull out the webmaster guerilla tactics.

[Head Boy]

Maybe even throw some text on there stating that the hotlinking site is doing something very very bad by implying that they may be crooked and the surfer may not want to be there. Make the surfer feel as if they should not be comfortable at that site.

Pull out the webmaster guerilla tactics.

I like that idea - make the surfer feel that if they steal from webmasters, they'll steal from him and mess with his computer. :)

[Trax]

can someone post the code again to do this?

[swedguy]

can someone post the code again to do this?
RewriteEngine on
# leave this line in allow empty referrers, remove to disallow empty referrers
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*@)?([a-z0-9-]+\.)*yourdomain\.com(:[0-9]+)?(/.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*@)?1\.2\.3\.4(:[0-9]+)?(/.*)?$
RewriteRule .*\.(asf|mpg|mpeg|wmv|avi|rm|gif|jpeg|jpg|zip)$ - [NC,F,L]
Replace the last line with:

RewriteRule .*\.(asf|mpg|mpeg|wmv|avi|rm|gif|jpeg|jpg|zip)$ http://www.domain.com/hotlink/image.jpg [NC,R,L]

Make a .htaccess in the "hotlink" folder that has this in it:

RewriteEngine Off

It will allow you to hotlink images in that dir.

[ronnie]

I like that idea - make the surfer feel that if they steal from webmasters, they'll steal from him and mess with his computer. :)

If enough webmasters did it, maybe the likes of fusker would lose some traffic..:)

ronnie

[swedguy]

A big flashing image

"FUSKER SITES HATE SURFERS
Formatting harddrive 10%.....20%.....30%....."

That's an idea ;)

[ronnie]

A big flashing image

"FUSKER SITES HATE SURFERS
Formatting harddrive 10%.....20%.....30%....."

That's an idea ;)

LOL .. good one..:) Make it look like a windows alert type box, animated gif, like the status bar going up the percentage.

ronnie

[Jel]

Thats a hell of a good idea.

[cd34]

FuskerI.EXE Detected
Attempting Removal...
Do not reboot
Formatting Drive...
0%, 10%, 20%, 30%

hahaha

[Agent]

THE SITE YOU ARE CURRENTLY VIEWING IS PENDING INVESTIGATION
PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW ANY LINKS OUT OF THIS SITE
- [Make up a cool looking acronym]
YOUR IP ADDRESS HAS BEEN LOGGED

[swedguy]

Pretty easy to fuck up hotlinkers :D

[Jel]

Still do like a nice ad though:
http://fusker.lewww.com/index.php?lid=549466&query=bukkake&

[ronnie]

Still do like a nice ad though:
http://fusker.lewww.com/index.php?lid=549466&query=bukkake&

Good one, I like it.

Looks like ftvcash put up a good one. Not a "this is hotlinked" but a good pic idea.

ronnie

[swedguy]

Good one, I like it.

Looks like ftvcash put up a good one. Not a "this is hotlinked" but a good pic idea.

ronnie
http://fusker.lewww.com/index.php?lid=587601&query=ftv&

|haha |haha |haha |haha

[ronnie]

http://fusker.lewww.com/index.php?lid=587601&query=ftv&

|haha |haha |haha |haha

Bad thing is, some will probably still be turned on, still getting their thrill..lol

ronnie