Image bandwidth theft
I noticed in my logs that a number of people were linking directly to images on my site, thus draining my allotted bandwidth dry. This has happened before with Steinbaugh Digital Media so I decided to modify my .htaccess file. Thanks to the guide from thesitewizard.com entitled “Preventing Image Bandwidth Theft With .htaccess,” Webspiffy won’t go offline due to bandwidth consumption anytime soon. That is unless I get slashdotted. Not like that is going to happen.
The modifications prevent other webmasters from using images on my web server in their HTML code. You can still download pictures off of webspiffy just fine but you can no longer link to them on the Internet to insert them inside your pages. If you’ve noticed this happening to your web site before, this is how you can fight back.
2 comments
(5 years, 8 months ago)
Doesn’t that suck.
(5 years, 5 months ago)
Here’s a beginner oriented article on preventing bandwidth theft. Now I’m off to explore your software section. Thanks.