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Bandwidth Theft

I have a friend who is having some bandwidth stolen, so I am trying to modify his .htaccess file to stop the theft. I think I finally have the problem solved.

Here is the code I included in his .htacess file to prevent bandwidth theft from outside websites:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?vintagerotaryphones\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png|wav)$ /images/nohotlink.jpe [L]

That being said, here is the link to the wav file that is being stolen. Give it a click and see how it works. I think it will solve the problem.

2 Comments & Trackbacks

 

#1  Mike Cherim had this to say:
Posted: October 10th, 2008 at 6:26 am

Nice job, Dave.

#2  David Zemens says in reply:
Posted: October 10th, 2008 at 10:05 am

Thanks for stopping by Mike. This hotlink fix has been used by a long time by many people, but it was the first request I had to implement it, so for me it was a new learning experience.

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