http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2006/04/22/image-hotlinking-bad/ Random commentary... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:06:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3-9771 hourly 1 http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2006/04/22/image-hotlinking-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-7335 Peter Westwood » Stealing content for profit. Fri, 26 May 2006 16:54:12 +0000 http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2006/04/22/image-hotlinking-bad/#comment-7335 [...] Reviewing my referrer logs again after the recent hotlinking issues I noticed another new referrer cropping up planetwordpress.com. Taking a look at the site in question it seems to be a WordPress install aggregating the content from a lot of WordPress blogs including most of those pulled into the official and unofficial WordPress planets (planet.wordpress.org and planetwordpress.planetozh.com respectively). [...] [...] Reviewing my referrer logs again after the recent hotlinking issues I noticed another new referrer cropping up planetwordpress.com. Taking a look at the site in question it seems to be a WordPress install aggregating the content from a lot of WordPress blogs including most of those pulled into the official and unofficial WordPress planets (planet.wordpress.org and planetwordpress.planetozh.com respectively). [...]

]]> http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2006/04/22/image-hotlinking-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-5551 Static Brain Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:27:21 +0000 http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2006/04/22/image-hotlinking-bad/#comment-5551 Image hot linking is nasty. I have had people do that to me too. Sure eats up the bandwith. Not anymore though, because I did the same thing you did. Learning about .htaccess was a little complicated but by far one of the best things I did. I feel sorry for people who aren't on apache servers. I do not know of anyway they can stop hotlinking. It is becoming a huge crime. You were smart to block it. Image hot linking is nasty. I have had people do that to me too. Sure eats up the bandwith. Not anymore though, because I did the same thing you did. Learning about .htaccess was a little complicated but by far one of the best things I did. I feel sorry for people who aren’t on apache servers. I do not know of anyway they can stop hotlinking. It is becoming a huge crime. You were smart to block it.

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