Els wrote:
> Kim André Akerø wrote:
>> Paula E. Burch wrote:
>>> Els wrote:
>>>> URLs? (both original and copycats)
>>>
>>> This one copied a bunch of my pages onto their front page....
>>>
>>> Copycat: http://www.freewebs.com/alamin_brothers/
> [snip]
>>> then a picture of my baby son that is linked from
>>> http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/dyeing-kids.shtml
>>> http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/dipd
>>> then the picture from http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/exa
> [snip]
When you post full URL's (as opposed to tinyurl's (TM) for example), you
actually promote the spammers.
>>> It's odd how they jammed a bunch of pages onto one of theirs,
>>> selecting my images from other pages to illustrate them. The page
>>> design is way inferior to the original!
>>
>> Not only that, they linked directly to the images on your server,
>> effectively stealing bandwidth from you whenever someone visits the
>> copycat's site.
Some content spammers that I have come across indeed hotlinked all the
graphics.
>> First of all, you might want to look into hotlinking prevention
>> methods, as explained and described here:
>> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hotlinking/
>>
>> Here's a hotlinking prevention generator for .htaccess files:
>> http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml
>
> In your shoes, I'd probably redirect the image requests for that site
> to an image which in clear terms explains that the page on which they
> are displayed is illegally copied from your site.
That's how I handle requests for Microsoft-specific server files, e.g.:
# /_vti_bin/owssvr.dll
# /MSOffice/cltreq.asp
# /_vti_pvt/service.pwd
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz
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