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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)?myspace\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule \.jpg$ http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=signout [R]

Good luck confusing the image stealers :)

So yeah if someone tries to steal my images they magically find softcore gay porn on their site.

I’m not sure what to look out for, in order to help you, but I do recommend this blog post guide to all things htaccess:

Useful htaccess guide from Crucial Web Hosting

Good luck with it.

My HTACCESS codes is as follow:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hardwaresphere.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.hardwaresphere.com/1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9} /index.php HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.hardwaresphere.com/ [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www.)?hardwaresphere.com($|/) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www.)?feedburner.com($|/) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https?://(www.)?feeds.feedburner.com($|/) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !google. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !search?q=cache [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !msn. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !yahoo. [NC]
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|mp3|mpg|avi|mov)$ - [F,NC]

Please help me if you spot something wrong there. Thanks in advance.

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The reason for using .jpe is so the image isn’t blocked along with all the .jpg files. I also had never seen this method before giving the hotlinking block a try.

Best of luck with Blogspot. Hope it works out for you.

I just rec’d your latest subscription post and it was just full of information I need.

As far as the hot linking issue, I think your final solution was the best. I did see one person who had put 2 men having sex and something like “I am f*cking with [blog name]’s bandwidth.” Tasteless, but funny.

I see you used .jpe for your file type on the image. Is this just another way to put .jpg or .jpeg? I have never seen this.

Thanks so much for the images in comments code. I had never thought about doing this. I am going to try it on Blogspot and see what happens.

All the best.

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Nancy

Thanks very much for answering Nancy. I appreciate your time.

The issue of streaming/downloading is quite different. In short, no, there isn’t a way to stop people downloading the music. You can use some sort of method to obfuscate the stream URL - lots of sites use Flash-based players to do this. That will stop most people. But a determined person will always be able to save your content, ultimately by taking the output from the soundcard and re-saving it.

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Any ideas?

Thankyou
Nancy