Someone hotlinked my pics

nottslad · 2005-08-30, 11:24 PM

I noticed from my referrer logs that someone hot linked about half a dozen full size images from one of my freesites to a reasonably busy message board. On checking the url I found the pics there and sure enough the properties showed that the pics were indeed hotlinked.

I'm not too worried about the loss of bandwidth at the moment as I have plenty to play with, but should this happen regularly then it might become more of an issue.

Other than contacting the owner and asking for them to be removed (which is probably more trouble than it is worth) any advice on how to deal with this?

2005-08-30, 11:24 PM	#1
nottslad Lord help me, I'm just not that bright Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Mexico Posts: 107	Someone hotlinked my pics I noticed from my referrer logs that someone hot linked about half a dozen full size images from one of my freesites to a reasonably busy message board. On checking the url I found the pics there and sure enough the properties showed that the pics were indeed hotlinked. I'm not too worried about the loss of bandwidth at the moment as I have plenty to play with, but should this happen regularly then it might become more of an issue. Other than contacting the owner and asking for them to be removed (which is probably more trouble than it is worth) any advice on how to deal with this?