hot linking to imagemagic images

[♥PassionSeed]

:angry: I recently noticed several referrals from sextoysunlimited.net (IP: 207.106.174.50). But when I viewed the site to see if my site was listed as a link, I found that the site was hot linking to my site's images. Here's an example:

 

<A HREF="http://www.sextoysunlimited.net/detail/Category0/indexID11966/Adams-PleasureSkin-Cock:-8-Inch-Natural.htm"><img src="http://passionseed.com/adult_sex_toys/imagemagic.php?img=z9rC1MbmnOXk1dHW0NXmzN7fx9TG4JCknq6onJvL3cg%3D&w=130&h=276&page=" alt="Adams PleasureSkin Cock: 8 Inch Natural" border=0></A><br>

 

I'm not the only victim of this site. I have the hot links activated in my control panel but with this contribution, it doesn't work. Any ideas on how to put a stop to this without preventing users from accessing my site from images.google.com. Maybe turn this back on the perpetrator and have the <img src redirect to your site if the URL is not yours. Any help is much appreciated.

[HSMagic]

You can stop google from farming your images by adding the following to your robots.txt:

 

User-agent: Googlebot-Image

Disallow: /

 

2nd you can use the features of imagemagic to watermark your pics for some level of protection.

[♥PassionSeed]

You can stop google from farming your images by adding the following to your robots.txt:

 

User-agent: Googlebot-Image

Disallow: /

 

2nd you can use the features of imagemagic to watermark your pics for some level of protection.

 

Would including php as a file type in the HotLink Protection of cPanel work as well? I did this and found that the number of referrals from this site did not increase and my site is no longer listed in their source. They are very cleaver. If they can't get to an image from one site, they go to another site. They actually have a JS script to do this automatically. I don't subscribe to this type of behavior and get very angry when something has been stolen from me.

 

Thanks for the info and the response.

[tomjmul]

Would including php as a file type in the HotLink Protection of cPanel work as well? I did this and found that the number of referrals from this site did not increase and my site is no longer listed in their source. They are very cleaver. If they can't get to an image from one site, they go to another site. They actually have a JS script to do this automatically. I don't subscribe to this type of behavior and get very angry when something has been stolen from me.

 

Thanks for the info and the response.

 

 

Why don't you take advantage on imagemagic's inbuilt watermarking feature? That is exactly what this was designed to prevent and if you went to the bother of installing the contribution in the first place....