What do to with this hotlink?
 

Was having a go at my stats today. And I found a strange URL at the top of the BW eater.

http://www.apollos-temple.com/wwwboa...ges/45644.html


And in there was links to some of my mpg files I use for a mgp gallery. As you see now, the link has been close. But if you enter this Url:

http://apollos-temple.com/wwwboard/index.html

The site has a "Movie Posting Forum". Should I do anything about it, other than putting a .htaccess up in my movie folders?

Just found another post with my movies in it:
http://www.apollos-temple.com/wwwboa...ges/45684.html

I see my htaccess can stop people from clicking the [1]<-linking to the movie. But if people copy and paste the url into their browser they still get to view the movie. Anyway around that?

I love it when they hot link my TGP galleries because it's free traffic and you do get sales from them. I post my TGP galleries on sites like this so don't see it as a negative :)

Well, the problem is that they only link to the contents ( .mpg .avi .mpeg). But not to the .htm page.

Don't you have a url in your video? If not you should but I'm not sure how the TGP gallery owners feel about this.

If you can't then I wouldn't just block them. Redirect them to a traffic trading page or something.

By the way you can also embed a url popup at the end of the video so that it redirects them to your pay site.

I dont think that tgp sites likes a embed url popup in the movies :)
I wanna stop them by htaccess

Have a look at this page it may be able to help you http://www.webmastersguide.com/htacc...cess.htm#video

Hey Kevin, what's up man? long time no see.

Just to mention that Apollos Temple used to have some serious traffic. They've been on my .htaccess for a long time now.

Not sure how much traffic they have now, but if you are worried about bandwidth, block 'em out asap.

How do I block a domain in htaccess?

Hiya wolfpack do I know you mate?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*livejournal.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*communities.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*systran.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*password.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*onecenter.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*readworld.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*keeptalking.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*apollos-temple.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*terra.*$
RewriteRule /* http://www.yourdomainorsponsor.com/ [R,L]

I use the above, and it works ok.

Cheers mate,

Do you know how to stop it, if the surfer copy the url into their browers?

Yep, move or rename whatever they are hotlinking.

Good idea, but then I have to change all the tgp htm files. So they are linking to the right movies. The change for being blacklisted for change the htm file after been listed is getting big then :)

DoS attack them |skull|

Just kidding :D

How many TGPs are we talking about? You could email all who have listed you and go 404.

I submit daily to over 100 tgp sites. Gonna give it a go

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?teenieman.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|mpg|mpeg)$ http://www.teenieman.com/tour_01.php [R,NC]

works for me ... cant view video by posting url path to it in address bar.

its option 2 at:

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

Ooohhh Mikey, that's a very nice piece of code. :D

i aim to please :)

FoZzI,
No problem at all man. I can ban your TGPs URL on my script and prevent anyone from posting any of your Pages/Files on the ReddyFreddys Movie Posting Forum in a split second. Matter of fact, it's done now. I had considered closing down the forum a month or so ago, but there is a little bit of traffic to it and I still make sales from it so we keep it up. www.gaymovietgp.com has been banned from the script so if anyone tries and post anything from that domain they won't be able to.
Again FoZzI, sorry for the trouble.

spaz

Wouldn't banning .mgp .wmv .mov et al be more effective in preventing file leeching originating from your board?

At the very least ppl would be forced to post links to galleries and give the person who's supplying content to your board (and is indirectly financing some of your sales) a chance to make a sale of their own?

NO, because we have a lot of posters who post their movies in various formats with their URL on the movie file itself. If I ban the file formats itself it ceases to be a movie posting forum and becomes a linklist. Not that there is anything wrong with those, but this forum has been up unchanged for quite awhile now (think years)

spaz

Yep, well that's one thing we didn't suggest....... contact the webmaster of the messsage board. :)

I am so used to message board webmasters being hostile about hotlinking or quoting legal shit at me.

I don't agree with hotlinking, but at least spazlabz has sorted it out. :)

yeah we try and be as reasonable as possible, as you can imagine we have pretty high BW bills ourselves and aren't looking to make life any harder on anyone else that's for sure. We actually have link trades with several MGP (gay)sites out there, and have always enjoyed a good relationship with them. If anyone has a problem with that site a quick e mail will resolve it quickly. my personal opinion is that respect between those of us who are in the business is very important. I won't get rude with another webmaster, even if they are rude with me, I just won't reply....... I save any and all venom I have specifically for Acacia|raygun|

spaz

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