http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml

Great link Mikey

One thing they mention on that page and I have not found a solution to is that most requests for video files come from a media player. Media Players do not send referrer data.
As a result you can't reliablely use .htaccess to block them.

Has any one found a solution to this problem?

You can use cookies Gel - don't have a link on me atm...

Give this a whirl - about 3/4 of the way down

http://www.sponsorfraud.com/resources/passguard/

I'm Jorge :)

Thanks for the inout Wazza. I should of been more specific. There are definately ways to protect movie file from hotlinkers. Of the ones I fond the cookie method seems to be the easiest.

More specificaly I haven't found a way to protect those movie files and still be TGP/MGP compliant.

Whoho, lot of usefull infomation here. Cheers all.
Spazlabz, you dog you :)
You should allow my domain access to your forum again, since I now can redirect the traffic to my own mgp |shake|

LOL FoZzI,
Boy-O-Boy, ya try to please some people!! hehehee Just kidding, I will remove the URL from the banned list if that's what you want. I aim to please. Also, since you have a little idea of the kind of quality targetted traffic we have at the forum (it's been up for a little over 3 years now) would you like to do a little link exchange? I can put a link to your MGP up at the top of the forum under the 'Friends Of Reddy Freddy' if ya wouldn't mind slapping one up for the forum. Let me know. Just shoot a mail over to Ted @ apollos-temple.com saying what text you want to appear and to what URL you would want it to point to :)
Chees mate and have a good one.

spaz

You got mail |bananna|

Cool FoZzI,
Got it, read it, liked it (crazy fonts and all LOL) and will have your link up top in less than a half hour and your domain unblocked. Can't wait to send you a bunch more gallery pages heh heh
Cheers mate :)

spaz