OR
you can have people sign up for a FREE account, but have to put in THEIR password and Username each time. At least THEN you can track down the idiot.
When it comes to client stuff.....indeed, lock it up behind passwords and SSL
Bill
On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 12:57 PM, Ashley Karyl wrote:
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
=============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
