No hotlinking, please
samulli on September 9th, 2007
I just added some code to my .htaccess-file that is supposed to stop people from hotlinking my pictures from other websites.
It seems to work fine when I tested it just now, but if you should notice anything wonky, please let me know.
This was not done to stop people from using my TT-header graphics! I am more than happy if you copy and use them on your own blog, but save them to your own webspace (or your flickr account or wherever). Just linking to them won’t work anymore, because that uses up my bandwidth everytime someone visits your page. And that’d be kinda stupid of me to allow, wouldn’t it? 
Thanks for the how-to to bloggingtips.com.
Glad you found the article useful. Its a simple procedure but one which should discourage people from scraping your blog
I can’t understand why people would hotlink images! It’s even a problem for me if people hotlink from their Flickr accounts because the Flickr site is banned in the UAE so I can’t see any image at all but that is totally a different story.
Yeah, banned sites are a problem of their own. That would really piss me off no end, just on principle.