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"What can i do? Freeola staffie may want to look!"

I have recently noticed a site that has just ripped off my content completely including around 50mb of audio files and videos. They didnt even take the time to download them and upload it to their own server. I tried to email them but the email address they provided is fake.

I think this is freeola's business as well as this is just wasting their bandwith on a site which isn't paying!

I was just wondering what can i do about it?

the site is hotwired.tk
which is pointing towards http://www.geocities.com/hotwiredottk/mainpage.html
if you go into the audio files you can see that they are all linked to my site.

my site is funrunner.co.uk incase you didnt already know that.

What do you guys think i should do?

AJ

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ [SPACE] avcenter/venc/data/w32.pinfi.html

Have a look there, that's the virus.

Darts.exe and dodgeball.exe both contain viruses.

Do a scan and clean them ASAP before anyone moans at you...

And on your desktop runner, with the backgrounds, for the thumbnails actually have different - smaller files that you resized in a graphics package. If you just use the HTML to change the size of the image, the file size of each of your thumbnails remains at 200kb+, making it all stupidly slow to download.

cheeseman wrote:
> i must check to see if my new host has it.

What host have you decided on then?

Plus you need to do a virus scan on all of your downloadable games and stuff. I got 2 warnings today downloading stuff off of your site.

In a .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.mydomain.com/REPLACETHEIMAGEWITHTHIS.gif [R,L]

or if you just want it to become a broken link (and therefore not take up any of your bandwidth):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]

phi11ip wrote:
> .htaccess
>
> Prevent hotlinking like Lycos, Geocities do...

.htaccess does that ?! I thought it's only use was to create custom 404 error pages ..! :D

I've got it.

:c)

Along with everything in the world ever ever ever!

Wohoo!

i must check to see if my new host has it.

.htaccess

Prevent hotlinking like Lycos, Geocities do...

Don't ask me how. Not sure if Freeola allow it though...

is there a way that i can do it so that anyone linking outside of my site to my games and stuff it comes up with a screen saying something like THIEF?