Comments on: Thief! Stop hot-linking my image!

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:14:03 +0000

Um if you read my post carefully, it states that they are stealing your bandwidth and also some resources from your server, which isn’t good.

Unless you put a watermark in your images (Which is what I do now), you won’t gain anything but lose a lot more by having someone steals your images

By: Kendin Tasarla

Kendin Tasarla — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:19:59 +0000

But why bother? DOn’t you like these hot linkers would use your images hosted in your site and post into theirs?

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:01:25 +0000

Heeh, you got that right! He deserved it. You should have left your link on the replacement image instead to steal his sellers to you

By: Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:37:40 +0000

A few years ago I was an eBay powerseller. One of my competitors — who didn’t have good images — decided to use mine and hotlinked to them from MULTIPLE auctions.

I switched the image on all my auctions and uploaded a file with the same name of the hotlinked file. It said something like, “This is a stolen image.”

He got all teed off because he could either (a) leave the images for the duration of the auctions or (b) prematurely end all the auctions and still pay the listing fees.

Really? How about get your own images?

By: Babaji M P

Babaji M P — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:57:22 +0000

Using a replacement image is working.

But … ,

The replacement images changes to the dimension of the copied image !

For eg.,

The original image is http://mysite.com/image.jpg of dimension 800×900
replacement image is http://hosted.com/image.jpg of dimension 200×300

Now, the problem here is the replacement image is stretched to 800×900,
making it hard to see the warning on the replacement image.

Any idea how to make the replacement image to show specific dimension via .htaccess ?

Thank You.
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