I receive quite a lot of traffic at my web site, but one thing I really hate is when somebody decides to use my images in a chat room and links directly through my web site.
Recently there has been one case of somebody who chats incessantly in Spanish on some web site dedicated to American Basketball and has decided, totally without permission, to use one of my images as his logo while chatting. Although I dislike this enough in principal alone, something that really irks me is seeing anything up to 1000 hits per day on just that image which can mean around 40MB of bandwidth being effectively stolen on a daily basis and I wonder if this may be ruining the navigating experience for others. Luckily I already have unlimited bandwidth in my web site hosting agreement otherwise I may even have been left with a big bill for the privilege. On a couple of occasions I have changed the name of the file to throw this character off track, but he/she comes back, finds the new link and starts all over again!! I have been to the web site and searched all over for an email to contact the administrator, but there is nothing in sight. The web site doesn't even seem to be listed in the who-is directory. Is there any way of effectively blocking this sort of behaviour? I contacted my web site hosts and they suggested making my web site password protected, but that's not exactly what I had in mind. What would happen if somebody like this stumbled across images that should only be seen by a client and used it in this way? Ashley =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
