Getting Revenge On Bandwidth Stealers



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Summary:
In addition, of course, since the person stealing the
bandwidth will hopefully stop doing it, then you may eliminate the problem
all together.

You can even reduce the graphic to a simple 2 color 1X1 pixel image if you
want (although that will not display the rude message). I also didn't want to remove the
image as I don't like 404 errors (I get an email for each and every one).

After repeated emails to the ring member site didn't work I was left with
the choice of removing the images or removing the site from the ring. However, if you've got a big
offender it can significantly reduce your bandwidth utilization.

Additional Information

Bandwidth stealing
http://www.internet-tips.net/Legal/Bandwidth.htm
Bandwidth stealing is the linking to images or scripts from another site
without permission, thus using that sites bandwidth without compensation.

How to tell if your bandwidth is being stolen
http://www.internet-tips.net/Legal/Bandwidthhow.htm
Want to find out if someone is stealing your bandwidth?
Article:
Well, you've discovered that someone is stealing your bandwidth. You've sent
them a polite email (if you can figure out an email address) and perhaps
even a less than polite message. They keep stealing your images, your sound
files, your videos and even your zip files. What do you do now?

One thing that is very low-quality is to replace the graphics image with
something else, something which prominently says 'stop doing this'. I've known
some people who use pornographic images or include swear words. I would not
recommend these actions, as they are unprofessional. A simple 'This person
is a thief' or 'this website is stealing bandwidth' or something to that
effect is fine.

Don't worry aimlessly how big you make the graphic - it will show up just fine
on the offender's web page. If they did not include high and width tags, the
graphic will show as is, otherwise it will be distorted - but who cares?

Remember to fully optimize the graphic image. A GIF with eight colors is
perfect, and a JPEG image compress by 50% to even 80% is great. This reduces
the effect of the bandwidth stealing by lowering the size of the image
that's person stolen.

Let's say you have an image that's 50k in size and it's subsisting stolen. The
web site that's using the image is displaying it 100 times a day. That's 5
megabytes of stolen bandwidth per day! If you can create a new graphic and
optimize the image to, say, 5k, you reduce the effect to 500k of bandwidth
instead of 5mb. In addition, of course, since the person stealing the
bandwidth will hopefully stop doing it, then you may eliminate the problem
all together.

You can even reduce the graphic to a simple 2 color 1X1 pixel image if you
want (although that will not display the rude message). This may be your
only option if the webmaster still does not remove the link to your images.

Oh yes, there is extra important piece to remember. You have to modify the
name of the graphic that your own pages are using. Otherwise, of course,
your pages will show that you are a thief, and that's not what you want.

Let's say you are using a graphic styled 'mine.jpg' and it is 127k in size.
Several sites link to that graphic. You go to each of those sites, get the
webmaster email statement from each, and send a polite letter petition them to
remove the link. You are ignored (which is often the case). A harsher email
is not only ignored but one of the webmasters responds with a nasty email.

So you go greater and rename 'mine.jpg' to something like 'mine2.jpg', then
create a new image which is only 2k in size (just 4 colors) which says 'This
webmaster is stealing graphics. Please ask him to stop'.

I'll bet that graphic comes down very fast.

I had a similar problem some time ago. I run several webrings and one of the
problems that constantly occurs is ring member sites link directly to the
graphics on my own host. They do this even though the rules of the ring
clearly state this is not allowed.

This left me with a dilemma. I didn't want to damage the harmony of the ring
by putting out a 'stop stealing' graphic, but since I am paying for my own
bandwidth I wanted to reduce the load. I also didn't want to remove the
image as I don't like 404 errors (I get an email for each and every one).

After repeated emails to the ring member site didn't work I was left with
the well-chosen of removing the images or removing the site from the ring. The
later option would still have left the bandwidth present-age stolen (since the
ring member probably would not remove the graphic).

What I wound up doing is creating a very optimal graphic with just 2 colors.
The barest minimum graphic. It still looked okay, but was for certain not the
best graphic for the ring. The file size of the image was less than 1k which
removed over 1mb a month from my bandwidth usage.

I know none of this is the ideal solution. It can be a royal pain to examine
server logs, send email and revert image names. However, if you've got a big
offender it can significantly reduce your bandwidth utilization.

Additional Information

Bandwidth stealing
http://www.internet-tips.net/Legal/Bandwidth.htm
Bandwidth stealing is the linking to images or scripts from fresh site
without permission, thus using that sites bandwidth without compensation.

How to tell if your bandwidth is thing stolen
http://www.internet-tips.net/Legal/Bandwidthhow.htm
Want to find out if someone is stealing your bandwidth? Here are some ways
you can tell.

Sins of the internet- Bandwidth Stealing
http://www.internet-tips.net/Legal/sins_bandwidth.htm
This sin costs hosts millions of dollars a year - and often you don't even
know that you did it!

Htaccess file - Redirect
http://www.internet-tips.net/Webmaster/htaccess_redirect.htm
You can redirect visitors to other pages using the redirect function of
htaccess.

HTML tag reference guide -
http://www.internet-tips.net/HTML/META_httpequiv_refresh.htm




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