{"id":320,"date":"2004-05-05T11:50:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T15:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/05\/chin-check_for_bandwidth_stealers\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T11:50:47","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T15:50:47","slug":"chin-check_for_bandwidth_stealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/05\/chin-check_for_bandwidth_stealers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chin-Check for Bandwidth Stealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to check my referral logs on my server this morning for the first time in a long time.  (I usually just look at the SiteMeter at the bottom of my pages.)  I was unpleasantly surprised to see a ton of entries showing various images of mine being snagged by other sites.  The perpetrators were people on BlackPlanet, MiGente, and various discussion forums.  After doing some quick Googling I found out how to modify my .htaccess file to prevent people from stealing my bandwidth in this way.  I actually went one step further and replaced the jacked images with the following:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.tradermike.net\/images\/stealing_bandwidth.gif?w=750\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"> <\/div>\n<p>That should give those people a nice little surprise when they check their sites. \ud83d\ude42  (You can see this in action <a href=\"http:\/\/pp.blackplanet.com\/Anti-Holla\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/members.migente.com\/SCHISMS\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/members.migente.com\/Sojerseyboi\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/memberse.blackplanet.com\/Blac-male\/\">here<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources if you wish to do something similar to protect your bandwidth:<\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/altlab.com\/hotlinkchecker.php\" title=\"ONLINE HOTLINKING CHECKER\">Test your hotlink protection<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/www.javascriptkit.com\/howto\/htaccess10.shtml\">Preventing hot linking of images<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/altlab.com\/htaccess_tutorial.html\" title=\"STOP HOTLINKING AND BANDWIDTH THEFT WITH HTACCESS\">A slightly different method of preventing hotlinking<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>I <i>almost<\/i> feel bad about doing this, only because they were stealing pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosdefinitely.com\/blackstar.htm\">Black Star&#8217;s<\/a> album cover (that one is really popular on the forums) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/boondocks.net\/\">Boondocks<\/a>.  I can&#8217;t front on their taste, but they need to learn proper web decorum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just implemented a nice little surprise for some people who were stealing my bandwidth by hotlinking to images on my server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/03\/the_hits_man\/","url_meta":{"origin":320,"position":0},"title":"The Hits Man","date":"September 3, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Congrats to my brother Tony on his 10,000th visitor (per SiteMeter) at his blog, Technically Speaking. Here's to the next 10K. 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