Ravenwood - 06/28/03 08:36 PM
I want to reiterate my policies. If you like an image you see here, and want to use it someplace else, you MUST download it and upload it on your own server. Unless you have explicit permission from me, or are using the link button, you MAY NOT hotlink my images. I pay monthly hosting fees, and bandwidth is quite expensive. Hotlinking images only makes it more expensive for me to run this site.
Right now there are two message forums that are hotlinking my images. This is one (not safe for work anymore). This is the other one (member only). I would ask that the administrators of those forums, or the users that hotlinked to my images, PLEASE remove the hotlink.
I understand that sometimes you find a cool image, and want to use it. But you need to understand, that from my point of view, you are costing me more money. Next time try providing a hyperlink to this site, instead of hotlinking my images directly.
UPDATE: The first link has removed the hotlinks to my images. Not sure about the second one. Again, I don't mind people downloading images and hosting them on their own, but please don't expect me to pay for it for you.
Not safe for work? That image is not safe for ANYWHERE!
And I just ordered pizza, too.
Posted by: Gregory Litchfield at June 28, 2003 10:11 PMYou are running Apache. To automagically prevent hotlinking, the tutorial is here.
Steve at littletinylies has this set up, but his rules are too narrow, so you can't see images on his page if you don't have the trailing slash in the URL. Beware.
I put this technology to good use, with this result.
Posted by: dipnut at July 1, 2003 6:29 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
