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"Stop stealing my stuff!"

Now my site has finally taken off (50+ visitors a day!) I was wondering if there was a way that I can track where my my files are being linked too?

Is there a way I can track if any sites are linking to my files or if people are linking them to different places accross the web?

ALl the videos are hosted on my Freeserve webspace and I was wondering if it is possible to gain stats of the downloads of each file...

Thanks...

I'm not sure if there is a script for what your looking for here but its still worth a try....
http://www.javafile.com

If you're really worried bout someone leeching your stuff then you could always zip it and put a readme in there telling people where it really came from so they can report it to you...

I know hoe you feel phi11ip its annoying when people leech your bandwidth

at one point with my website i had got 100+ visitors a day then it started to die and found out another bigger site with the same theme as mine was leehing my stuff.

I have a really cool anti leech script that i was given by a friend who used to own a similar site to mine, but havn't used it yet it is very effective though. Its on my computer somewhere or could be on CD if i find i will let you know on here

icedtears wrote:
> so basically... no... i'm guessing thats what most of you are trying
> to say!! :-D i learnt a few things today though... thanx guys!!

When did i write that?? I don't remember writing that!! :-O

so basically... no... i'm guessing thats what most of you are trying to say!! :-D i learnt a few things today though... thanx guys!!

no you cant stp people linking ...best thing to do is stick a password in every file will help a little

i have web space with telewest broadband and it tells me every hit
every download ...try goig into web page administration will help you out there if you have it


my web site is
http://thegameboykid.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
and its my favourite links downloads etc etc

Disabling right clicks really won't stop anyone getting the address of your files...

I fear some of you didn't quite understand the meaning of the word censor. :)

And in any event, I don't think he wanted to prevent people taking his files. He wanted to stop people linking to them, thats an entirely different matter. And really doesn't have much to do with freedom of information in my opinion.

Damnit, you got there before me.

Pretty much ditto. You can't and shouldn't censor the web.

ajg wrote:
> Unfortunately stealing or borrowing is part of web culture and as such
> you should try and accept it.

The web is an open source document. No one should ever try and stop someone looking at the source, this is how people learn how to do things.

Don't "try and accept it", embrace it and realise that this is the great thing about the web.