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ff1324
Everybody Goes Home
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On Four Day

reply to Get off my lawn
Re: How to stop MP3 leechers?

Get rid of the robots.txt file and put everything in a folder with a rather cryptic name...numbers, uppercase, and lowercase. Better yet, put them in two folders. And don't have any links to them anywhere.
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jester121
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·surpasshosting
·ViaTalk

reply to drew
said by drew See Profile :

Trust me, the abuse department will ensure this doesn't happen any more.
hehe

drew, at least I got your point.


Oleg
Bellsouth Fastaccess
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Birmingham, AL
reply to Get off my lawn
If your hosting using CPanel use Hot linking protection.


ironwalker
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reply to Nordic
said by Nordic See Profile :

Dreamhost has a ton of info on how to be invisible to spiders and the like. If you don't want anybody --except you-- being able to access your files, then you should configure .htaccess to your needs.
Or set a password


Nordic

@mindspring.com
reply to Get off my lawn
Dreamhost has a ton of info on how to be invisible to spiders and the like. If you don't want anybody --except you-- being able to access your files, then you should configure .htaccess to your needs.


gdasfdsaf

@comcast.net
reply to Get off my lawn
I use the following ROBOTS.TXT file to keep ROBOTS from my files... Turns out yahoo was 50% of my hits.....

user-agent: *
Disallow: /flvplayer.swf
Disallow: /*.flv$
Disallow: /*.mp3$
Disallow: /*.m3u$


ViviTheMage
vivi
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reply to Get off my lawn
said by Get off my lawn :

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand...I'm back.

How could these things be finding my files?

I'm new to the whole hosting thing, sorry....
hehehe

»www.g2p.org/

if the directory is public, it's findable if you will.


Get off my lawn

@bellsouth.net
reply to Get off my lawn
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand...I'm back.

How could these things be finding my files?

I'm new to the whole hosting thing, sorry....


Get off my lawn

@dreamhost.com

reply to drew
said by drew See Profile :

Trust me, the abuse department will ensure this doesn't happen any more.
So what do I do, email DreamHost and say, "My MP3s--which I do use in a player on my website--are being leeched?"

Won't that stop ME from being able to use my files in a flash MP3 player on my site as well as get rid of the leechers?

(Aah, looks like my SOCKS5 proxy is working )


removed
Crisis Management Squad
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Houston, TX
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reply to Get off my lawn
»www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess14.shtml

This will block requests from certain referrers, which should do the trick for you.


drew
Reformation
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Port Orchard, WA
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reply to Get off my lawn
Trust me, the abuse department will ensure this doesn't happen any more.


Get off my lawn

@dreamhost.com
reply to drew
So there isn't any way to just disable hotlinking?
Like, if someone tries to pull "Yes - Roundabout.mp3" from my server...they can't?


drew
Reformation
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reply to Get off my lawn
Contact the abuse department at your hosting company for assistance!


Get off my lawn

@bellsouth.net

Hi,
I have a server...well, a hosting plan.
On my space I have a lot of MP3 files. A backup, if you will.
I was looking at my site statistics today and I noticed that a bunch of these "MP3 leeching" sites for MySpace and the like are accessing my files.
How do I stop this?
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