Bandwidth Leeching

I loaded up Visitors today on burtonini.com to see what was going on, and discovered that I've got 12000 referrals from a single domain, which I didn't recognise. A few minutes later, I discovered that several users on xanga.com are using photos I have taken as web page backgrounds, from my site.

A quick google later, and I've got some mod_rewrite magic going on. Get off my land!

NP: Keep It Solid Steel, Mr. Scruff

14:44 Thursday, 02 Dec 2004 [#] [computers] (3 comments)

Posted by Anti at Thu Dec 2 20:49:41 2004:
Interesting, I'm seeing the same in my logs, different users from xanga.com are using images on my server as their backgrounds.
Posted by Sunnan at Thu Dec 9 13:14:13 2004:
How did you do it?
Posted by Ross at Fri Dec 10 11:11:11 2004:
Sunnan -- with mod_rewrite.  Any requests referred from a certain domain are refused.

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