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Is there anyway i can do this with freeola?
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Sod that, I'm not letting people take the files and claim credit for them, especially when some are 10MB+ in size!
Webflash.com is a site that lives on bandwidth theft. I was bored and I noticed that they were taking more of my games after I'd already moaned at them...
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SUBJECT: I've already told you before...
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Bandwidth theft.
It's illegal, it's infringing copyright. SO PLEASE DON'T DO IT!
People pay for their bandwidth and you're just taking the individual files for your site and may as well be claiming to host them yourself. Basically people are funding your site for you.
Take all of my games off of your site now, I let you off the first time but I've found yet another game being leeched from my site and again there's no credit to me, you've even managed to take the game off of the page it was on and just link to the file. It wouldn't be too bad if you used the page the game came on as I'd get some credit for it, but you've just taken the file so nobody knows that I'm providing it for you.
I'm giving you 2 days to either clear all the games from my site off of yours or give me credit for the files, as in a big link saying, 'Hosted with phi11ip.com.' If you don't do this, I'll have to contact your host because I'm not having it go on any longer.
Oh, and I love the irony of this comment on your site, "Please upload the image to your own server, because if we find it leeched from ours i will personally remove your site from our listing, and contact your host."
Thanks.
Phillip
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Let's see what they say, I'm not that fussed as I haven't got any real limits, I just hate people taking the p*ss like this! I might just nick stuff back off of them, that should be interesting!
Webflash.com is a site that lives on bandwidth theft. I was bored and I noticed that they were taking more of my games after I'd already moaned at them...
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SUBJECT: I've already told you before...
BODY:
Bandwidth theft.
It's illegal, it's infringing copyright. SO PLEASE DON'T DO IT!
People pay for their bandwidth and you're just taking the individual files for your site and may as well be claiming to host them yourself. Basically people are funding your site for you.
Take all of my games off of your site now, I let you off the first time but I've found yet another game being leeched from my site and again there's no credit to me, you've even managed to take the game off of the page it was on and just link to the file. It wouldn't be too bad if you used the page the game came on as I'd get some credit for it, but you've just taken the file so nobody knows that I'm providing it for you.
I'm giving you 2 days to either clear all the games from my site off of yours or give me credit for the files, as in a big link saying, 'Hosted with phi11ip.com.' If you don't do this, I'll have to contact your host because I'm not having it go on any longer.
Oh, and I love the irony of this comment on your site, "Please upload the image to your own server, because if we find it leeched from ours i will personally remove your site from our listing, and contact your host."
Thanks.
Phillip
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Let's see what they say, I'm not that fussed as I haven't got any real limits, I just hate people taking the p*ss like this! I might just nick stuff back off of them, that should be interesting!
ye k woteva
Yup.
its against all principles?
so people are stealing bandwith but to stop them that is morally wrong?
so people are stealing bandwith but to stop them that is morally wrong?
I suppose I may as well tell you how to do this.
You need to hide your movies in a folder, say for example, 810a5bdaafc6dd30b1d9979215935871/, then create a script called download.php, which goes something like this:
1. Check your $HTTP_REFERER to see if the link has come from your domain, use stristr(); for this.
2. Read $_GET['file'] for the filename you want.
3. Send the right header for the file using header("Content-type: video/mpeg"); or something like that, you'll need to look up the correct MIME headers and maybe check the extension for what they should be.
4. Run fpassthru ("810a5bdaafc6dd30b1d9979215935871/$_GET[file]"); to send the data to the browser.
Hit the page with download.php?file=somevideofile.mpg. Add at-signs (@) in front of your functions to supress errors which will give away the directory.
You'll need some technique to do this properly. I'm not going to help you further with this as I'm morally opposed to hot link protection. It's against all principles of the Internet.
You need to hide your movies in a folder, say for example, 810a5bdaafc6dd30b1d9979215935871/, then create a script called download.php, which goes something like this:
1. Check your $HTTP_REFERER to see if the link has come from your domain, use stristr(); for this.
2. Read $_GET['file'] for the filename you want.
3. Send the right header for the file using header("Content-type: video/mpeg"); or something like that, you'll need to look up the correct MIME headers and maybe check the extension for what they should be.
4. Run fpassthru ("810a5bdaafc6dd30b1d9979215935871/$_GET[file]"); to send the data to the browser.
Hit the page with download.php?file=somevideofile.mpg. Add at-signs (@) in front of your functions to supress errors which will give away the directory.
You'll need some technique to do this properly. I'm not going to help you further with this as I'm morally opposed to hot link protection. It's against all principles of the Internet.
Don't think you can stop videos...
Im not really bothered bout the pictures because they are only a small percentage of my site. Im more concerned about the videos and the other big files
I may email freeola and see if they can do anything
I may email freeola and see if they can do anything
You could probably use PHP's Image functions.
Placing all the images in your root directory, but not in the 'htdocs', and then using PHP to grab the image and create a copy for use only while the page is being used.
Within the PHP Script, you could include checks that the file isn't being called from an external web site.
This would prevent hot-linking, but not stop people 'right-clicking' and saving your images.
Its an idea, one that might work, so have a look into it.
I don't know if it would work, so can't give you any working code at the moment, neither do I have the means/time to create and test any, sorry.
Placing all the images in your root directory, but not in the 'htdocs', and then using PHP to grab the image and create a copy for use only while the page is being used.
Within the PHP Script, you could include checks that the file isn't being called from an external web site.
This would prevent hot-linking, but not stop people 'right-clicking' and saving your images.
Its an idea, one that might work, so have a look into it.
I don't know if it would work, so can't give you any working code at the moment, neither do I have the means/time to create and test any, sorry.
I take it that's a no then!
Give them a ring and ask them, tell them that 2o bjillion gig of bandwidth is being stolen from you each month and it will benefit them if they help you...
Give them a ring and ask them, tell them that 2o bjillion gig of bandwidth is being stolen from you each month and it will benefit them if they help you...
Last time I installed a .htaccess on Freeola I got a massive lecture for screwing up the server.
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