Good Things To Know: Preventing Hotlinking

[permetaform]

copy-pasted wholesale from silverthoughts with permission

First, I've turned off direct linking a long time ago. You can do it via your own Cpanel which never really worked for me. So, I created an .htaccess file with the help of this wizard:

http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml

Just follow the instructions but remember to include only the URLS that you want to be able to hotlink from.

I also created a direct linking image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/silverhawk/layout/linker.jpg) in place of it and uploaded it at a free image host so it will always direct itself somewhere else and no longer on my domain. I create it big, I create it bright because believe it or not, a lot of them have pretty layouts.

I also write a note on my site that if anyone direct links, they only get that direct linking image and I let them see it.

If I do catch someone direct linking, I write them an email [...] to explain why direct linking is wrong, [...] and this link to tell them if they can't read English, it's all translated here:

http://www.obsess-much.com/directlinking

And then I shoot them a suggestion for free image hosting providers so they have no excuse to not save it to their own site:

http://silverthoughts.net/rightclicklick/faq1.html

and then tell them to remove or I will report them to their ISP as a violation to the terms of their host. Most tell me to fuck off. Someone called me a bitch and didn't care what I did so I reported her to DeadJournal abuse and I had her Deadjournal deleted.

Comments

Rec away

[meneathiel.livejournal.com]

Checking out the fic links permetaform has but I quite willing to have more recs of both the pics and the fics.

I was checking out amazon for the dvd prices and they seem to have a box set at $173. Is it worth the whole series? Or should I buy them by show? It doesn't seem to be something we get here in Canada, we are notoriously lame when it comes to anime.

Made an icon out of the picture, hope that was okay.

Re: Rec away

[permetaform]

heh, check out bit torrent. I'm pretty sure all the eps are up and you can get them with a subscription to suprnova or even free...

Re: Rec away

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

I would see if you have any friends across the border with Cartoon Network: they can tape it for free. Netflix carries it too. I bought the whole series but I'm completely frikin' obsessed. Icon away, and my recs and suchlike are up on try_this_fic now. angstymcgoth has more recs than you can shake a stick at, too, including a LONG Japanese fanart/doujin post a couple pages back (I think).