How to name and shame hotlinking thieves

[los_design]

Hi Guys

To stop the BW stealers, here is a novel idea that was requested by one of our clients...checkout the link and tell me if you can see the result

This guy steals bandwidth off many suppliers - how to stop hotlinking

BTW, notice the keywords to help the SEs index this guy. After this, we then tell them to remove ALL our items and add a few lines of code to the htaccess file.

Enjoy

[TraceyHand]

I've had problems with this before too..again, Ebay..

Check this out.. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-DOROTHY-PE...QQcmdZViewItem
(scroll down to the photo within the listing)
I first complained to the seller about 6 months ago..she replied claiming the photo was her own (she assumed I meant the main photo, not the one in the listing) and said she would "await an apology" from me!
I replied informing her that the photo in the listing was not only mine..but linked to my webspace. I received no further response..so.. I did what you see now!

And, many months on, she either doesn't know or doesn't care!
Either way, it's advertising for me because she's using it in about 4 or 5 different auctions!

[los_design]

Nice Tracey

I do like the nsame and shame aspect (plus the free marketing they allow us )

Regards

[acompton]

I get a small, watermarked picture of a Hitachi power tool.
If I scroll down, I get the 'stolen image' message.

Alan

[Stereo Steve]

We had this on Ebay so we promptly changed our listings and changed the image to text saying 'Buy one, get 2 Free' in big letters. He stopped using it about 24 hours later. Hopefully he had some very satisfied customers.

[TraceyHand]

We had this on Ebay so we promptly changed our listings and changed the image to text saying 'Buy one, get 2 Free' in big letters. He stopped using it about 24 hours later. Hopefully he had some very satisfied customers.

LOL that's funny!!
Might have to think about trying that one

[los_design]

We had this on Ebay so we promptly changed our listings and changed the image to text saying 'Buy one, get 2 Free' in big letters. He stopped using it about 24 hours later. Hopefully he had some very satisfied customers.

Now thats quality....

[los_design]

We had this on Ebay so we promptly changed our listings and changed the image to text saying 'Buy one, get 2 Free' in big letters. He stopped using it about 24 hours later. Hopefully he had some very satisfied customers.

Sorry for the plagerism but I have updated the image

Great one, hope you don't mind

[TraceyHand]

Out of interest, what does the tiny text at the bottom say?

Very funny though...I'm betting he'll remove the image quicksmart now!

[los_design]

Out of interest, what does the tiny text at the bottom say?

Very funny though...I'm betting he'll remove the image quicksmart now!

The above offer may not be honoured...

It now appears on all the images he has stolen from our client.

[Stereo Steve]

#8 It's officially open source.

[leehack]

I took exception to a persistant hot linker one day, he was selling the same products as one of my clients, yet didnt have the brains to just copy them, he linked to them instead. I was going to warn him about it, but i thot stuff it, he's in the wrong and i duly changed it to an image one would never want to see. Within 3 days his 50 odd hotlinks had disappeared and a short email was received:

Apologies, i've got the message and sorted it now.

Regards

Mr X

Watermark your images and when they use them, you get free advertising is now my stance.

[los_design]

I took exception to a persistant hot linker one day, he was selling the same products as one of my clients, yet didnt have the brains to just copy them, he linked to them instead. I was going to warn him about it, but i thot stuff it, he's in the wrong and i duly changed it to an image one would never want to see. Within 3 days his 50 odd hotlinks had disappeared and a short email was received:

Apologies, i've got the message and sorted it now.

Regards

Mr X

Watermark your images and when they use them, you get free advertising is now my stance.

any clue as to the image (pre-watershed rules apply)

I cannot believe no-one has bought one yet...that would make me chuckle BIG TIME into my smoking jacket.

[leehack]

There were 2 people in the picture....
Further clues at 8pm.....

[NormanRouxel]

Darren,

I see you've now changed your image to "Special Offer ... Buy one and get one free". Brilliant! That should cause the pirate lots of bother.