Webmaster forum - Re: What's up with livejournal ( ... hotlinking)?

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Re: What's up with livejournal ( ... hotlinking)?

Chaddy2222

2007-04-19, 3:19 am

Chuck Anderson" <websiteaddress@seemy.sig> wrote in message
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> Earlier today one livejournal site hotlinked to one of my site's images
> and suddenly sites all over the place are requesting the same image. Some
> are at livejournal.com and others are simply using a local file called
> lj.php at their domain. Within five minutes about 50 different sites
> (different domains and IP addresses) were all requesting that image - and
> they keep trickling in all day now. What is the deal with that?
> I redirect hotlinkers, but I can not believe the flood of file requests
> coming from live journal associated sites today.
>
> Are they like THE biggest bandwidth stealing organization on the net
> (besides myspace)? I'm tempted to give the whole domain the 403. Does
> livejournal actually condone this sort of thing?
>
Read the terms, it states that they do allow stuff from a thirred party to
be posted.
Although I did not read them in full.
But yes, I would just 403 the entire domain.

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Chuck Anderson

2007-04-22, 6:19 pm

Chaddy2222 wrote:
> Chuck Anderson" <websiteaddress@seemy.sig> wrote in message
> news:1d6dnWXiZtuQHLvbnZ2dnUVZ_tunnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
> Read the terms, it states that they do allow stuff from a thirred party to
> be posted.
> Although I did not read them in full.
> But yes, I would just 403 the entire domain.
>
>
Actually, I found this on their Policies page ....

"Do not post copyrighted content without permission."

...... and a whole page on how to report copyright infringement.

(Which seems like too much to bother with.)

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