How to defend hotlinking?
 

Howdy folks,

some a**hole from Argentina hotlinked images from some of my freesites and steals massive bandwidth.
I wonder how to defend this....

Oh by the way: That fucker seems to hotlink not only my content:
http://www.poringa.net/posts/imagene...ladito-08.html
http://www.poringa.net/posts/imagene...2007-2008.html

Sometimes it's too easy or just too late |loony|

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]

save this as a text file and name it .htaccess and upload it to your image directory. change the domain.com above to your real domain name

if you really want to have some fun

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?myspace\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?blogspot\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?livejournal\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/nohotlink.jpg [L]

be creative with nohotlink.jpg :D

Put a banner with your own domain name that you want branded there ;)

you could also add your url to your images for more traffic.