My referral and web usage logs are tracking a lot of referral links on two forums. One is about roller-coasters and the other is about growing magic mushrooms. Considering I don't talk about roller-coasters or magic mushrooms I am guessing that some user is directly linking to one of my images. I am going to send some email to the forum owners tonight asking their users to knock it off. I have no problem of them taking the images but it is the direct linking and embedding of images that gets me.
you know what to do, right? substitute graphics that say "This person steals bandwidth" or something.
Yes that is what I did here.
But my problem is that I don't know what user is linking to my graphics directly and I don't know what graphics are being embedded. It is a problem with images imbeded in a non static forum is that it is hard to find out about info by checking referal logs and ever time some one views that posting it hits my site for the image.
You may be able to protect all of your images with a single .htaccess file:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml
If your server's instance of Apache supports the mod_rewrite module, you can copy their example file and place it in the root directory of your webspace. Since directories inherit .htaccess properties from their parent directories, it would affect every image on your site automatically.
Steve
Well Steve I did that it would break the image links for people who are using my image banners.