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Is Someone Stealing Your Bandwidth?
I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of strange, unrelated sites have been showing up in my web stats as links from an external page. Many of the URL’s look like some of the same spam mail I get in my inbox.
Upon visiting these strange sites, I found pictures that I had posted on my blog. I then realized that these folks were not copying and pasting my image, which is bad enough, but worse, they are just linking to the image in my blog. This is not only stealing, but it’s using MY bandwidth. So, I had to remedy the problem and I thought you might be interested as well. Continue reading
Posted in building websites, on technical stuff
Tagged bandwidth, building websites, computers, hotlinking, htaccess, photos
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