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#1 2010-03-16 12:57:25

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From: Sunny South East UK
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How to stop "hot linking" / image theft from your website

I do not normally like posting cross forums but I thought that this was a very worthwhile item towards protecting the content we place upon our websites.

Over on panoguide.com, one of the regular contributors Arampan (who creates 360's and tours in Singapore) became aware that one of his 360's was being used without permission on a Spanish website.  We have all either heard or experience that one before haven't we!

Effectively they had "hot linked" his tour hosted on his site to their own site so not only were they using his content without permission but also in linking the tour in their site to his website they increased his visitor bandwidth traffic.

When posted to the forum another contributor pointed out a few lines of code that can be used that will replace any of your content with a graphic of your choice.

Thought that this was VERY useful and wanted to share it with my other friends on the differing forums that I am a member of.

Complete forum link is hear http://www.panoguide.com/forums/qna/7573/ but look for postings by "Sid", 3rd one down for the URL to the tutorial.  There is also a link from Arampan showing the offending website with his replacement graphic.


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