How to stop MP3 leechers? in Webhosting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22400593 en Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:06:03 EDT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:06:03 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22548537 ff1324 : 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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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. ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22529877 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:50:12 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22503521 Oleg : If your hosting using CPanel use Hot linking protection.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22503521 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:46:29 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22442124 ironwalker :
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22442124 Mon, 25 May 2009 19:12:59 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22435398 anon : 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. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22435398 Sun, 24 May 2009 00:10:13 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22405272 anon : 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$]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22405272 Mon, 18 May 2009 09:57:53 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400808 ViviTheMage :
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. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400808 Sun, 17 May 2009 01:25:16 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400657 anon : Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand...I'm back. :)

How could these things be finding my files?

I'm new to the whole hosting thing, sorry....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400657 Sun, 17 May 2009 00:24:30 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400636 anon :
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 ;))]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400636 Sun, 17 May 2009 00:14:57 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400632 removed : »www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess14.shtml

This will block requests from certain referrers, which should do the trick for you.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400632 Sun, 17 May 2009 00:11:51 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400630 drew : Trust me, the abuse department will ensure this doesn't happen any more.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400630 Sun, 17 May 2009 00:10:43 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400627 anon : 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?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400627 Sun, 17 May 2009 00:09:22 EDT Re: How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400608 drew : Contact the abuse department at your hosting company for assistance!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400608 Sun, 17 May 2009 00:02:52 EDT How to stop MP3 leechers? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400593 anon : 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?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22400593 Sat, 16 May 2009 23:56:39 EDT