Hotlinkers Beware!

**incka** · 01-19-2004, 10:23 AM

Lapoo.nl hotlinked a game on my one site which is still per mb bandwidth. It cost me £2.50 so I got my revenge! I used this .htaccess code:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?games2go.co.uk/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?games2go.co.uk.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?3bgames.co.uk/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?3bgames.co.uk.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(swf|dcr)$ http://www.games2go.co.uk/lapoo.html [R,L]

To make it have the game in a small frame from a per month bandwidth thing I have loads left on, and put loads of ads on for my site and for a ad network.

I've got over 1250 banner impressions in 12 hours... Cool hey...

The URL that hotlinked me is:

http://www.lapoo.nl/couronne/

You may wish to do something like this if someone hotlinks your site to get free advertising and money and to get back at them.

**michael_gersitz** · 01-19-2004, 11:17 AM

I like how you changed it from what is was before! Nice thinking...

I doubt they will even realize it for a long time...

**incka** · 01-19-2004, 11:21 AM

I know, I've made about $4 from fastclick already... I'm thinking of doing a feeds thing for online games sites to put the frames on which look like there site, but have ads on...

**michael_gersitz** · 01-19-2004, 11:25 AM

I would be happy with this.

Do not try to much stuff...

Log onto MSN...

**incka** · 01-19-2004, 11:30 AM

It's not working ATM, other contacts:

AIM: seanspurr (I think)
ICQ: 335330801

**michael_gersitz** · 01-19-2004, 11:39 AM

what is ATM?

**incka** · 01-19-2004, 11:42 AM

at the moment...

MSN doesn't work alot of time...

**michael_gersitz** · 01-19-2004, 11:48 AM

Try restarting your computer...

**incka** · 01-19-2004, 12:00 PM

I'll try...

Get ICQ anyway, it's very useful...

**Mike** · 01-19-2004, 12:06 PM

I don't get how that works, seems like a good idea though. Could you explain please?

**incka** · 01-19-2004, 12:10 PM

The restart didn't help, so if you want to chat you will have to get AIM or ICQ.

I used .htaccess to stop them using an iframe on one of my files which was costing me bandwidth. I redirected them to a html file with ads on and the game on hostony servers, which i have about 59gb bandwidth a month spare on.

**MarkB** · 01-19-2004, 12:22 PM

Get trillian

**incka** · 01-19-2004, 12:32 PM

Trillian?

Is that something that combines all three?

**Mike** · 01-19-2004, 12:36 PM

Originally posted by incka
The restart didn't help, so if you want to chat you will have to get AIM or ICQ.

I used .htaccess to stop them using an iframe on one of my files which was costing me bandwidth. I redirected them to a html file with ads on and the game on hostony servers, which i have about 59gb bandwidth a month spare on.

Very smart