FouGilang 0 Report post Posted November 11, 2009 i assume that you have the same opinion about those called "looters", or "leechers" or "lurkers", or whatever they really called, the one who stole the things inside our site and make them as if that was their own credits :)i have 6gb of files, which i uploaded them myself, and i NEED to hide the direct links so that people can't just come, copy, left, paste, to their own site. this is just irriratingany suggestions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rvalkass 5 Report post Posted November 12, 2009 When you put anything on the Internet you are making it publicly accessible to the world. If someone downloads a file from your site then there is nothing physically stopping them from uploading it to their own site. Obviously copyright laws theoretically stop them in most countries, but most people are undeterred by them. They will also most likely find a way around whatever restriction you put in place, and depending on the method you choose, you might just end up annoying 'legitimate' users while doing nothing to deter the 'leechers'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
templehost 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2009 you can use urlshort or something like that its easy to use or just claim to officials if you see your stuff being sold anywhereyou cant stop leechers as they are everywhere and no one can have full control over themall you can do is to get them reduced Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FouGilang 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2009 oh boy, i guess my cancel request for this thread was not received... When you put anything on the Internet you are making it publicly accessible to the world. If someone downloads a file from your site then there is nothing physically stopping them from uploading it to their own site.yeah, and i won't stop them IF they download it and upload it themselves to their own site / other file hosting for mirrors. i have more tolerance with that kind of "stealing", at least they do an "effort" to publish it on their site. what i am talking here is that i'm using my own host to host my files. and that @#$%^&* people just come, view source, copy, went to their blog / site / forum, and paste. moreover, since it's a direct link, most people of my country never care about the real origin of the download url. so what happen next is they see a nice and simple post which consist all file they want, and those @#$%^&* people take all the credits for themselves, stealing my bandwidth which i PAID note: er... ok, my cancellation request is "@mod, please cancel my "Any Good Hide Links Extensions For Joomla 1.5?", i've got alternative for that" in the shoutbox, maybe it was disappeared before the mods read it anyway, the alternative i mentioned is that .htaccess on my download folder. i can use that .htaccess so that only visitor from my site and my authenticated friends' site can open or download the files. sorry for this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
