Sayonara Hotlinkers

I've had it. People are hotlinking images from my site like crazy, using them (in full size no less) in forum postings and even as backgrounds for their own sites. They don't even bother downloading the images in question, they just link directly to the files on my server.

Earlier I've replaced images that were hotlinked with other, not so nice, pictures. For those of you curious enough, google tubgirl and goatse.

Most of the hotlinked images reside on my old Gallery 1.x install, which has no real image protection scheme. I've since migrated to Gallery 2, but left my old install in place. So, step 1 now is to remove the old albums dir. That should stop most of the existing links out there, but I also want to be able serve "alternative" images to hotlinkers, if I feel like it. So, I hope to do a general rewite for all image files in the old albums location and feed them to a php script that determines what to do with it.

So, the sites looking at getting images replaced on their site right now are the following:


  • www.majorwager.com
  • www.myspace.com/poppiwhatitdo
  • profile.myspace.com
  • forum.pcdiscuss.com
  • vpro.react.nl
  • www.geenstijl.nl
  • rukazone.myfreebb.com
  • mikadosoc.ie
  • www.bah4ever.com
  • www.dvd4arab.com
  • www.student.uib.no
  • lnx.calciolinks.com
  • docet.mastertopforum.net
  • patchtimer.org
  • www.kwick.de
  • www.atima.com.br
  • words.globalsearch.cz
  • www.infoautoemoto.com
  • www.onlinesoccermanager.nl
  • fwrestling.com
  • forums.probetalk.com
  • www.prisjakt.nu
  • lens-forever.forumactif.com
  • suicidegirls.com
  • zonaforo.meristation.com/foros
  • www.pariando.it
  • www.fcbahis.com
There are probably more to come as I continue to check my logs...

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel

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Published November 6, 2005 17:45
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6 Responses to Sayonara Hotlinkers:

  • Jesse Mullan
    November 7, 2005 5:27pm

    Well, you sure got me good. A glorious tubgirl where once there was a South Park h0bbel. ;)

  • h0bbel
    November 7, 2005 6:44pm

    Hah, you will again enjoy my manboobs! :)

  • Brian
    December 1, 2005 3:17pm

    Whoa. Man i think you’ve gotten mikadosoc.ie shut down, it’s a college website that’s hanging by a thread for it’s users posting porn! wondering why i haven’t been able to get in for a while!

  • h0bbel
    December 1, 2005 3:31pm

    Can’t say that I’m sorry about that ;-)

  • Queevs
    December 1, 2005 5:57pm

    brian, twas a dns server issue, mikado is back up…

    *does her dance of victory on h0bbel..

    just kiddin, but the porn thing aint so good… people get reported..

    ah well, they shouldn’t be hotlinking! :D

  • h0bbel
    December 1, 2005 6:11pm

    Well, hotlink to my server at will. I can’t guarantee the results of doing so though, as I’m free to do whatever I wish with my own server.

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