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Blocking image/content-rippers
| Posted by guimaraes83, 05-22-2007, 01:30 PM |
| My forum has a gallery of around 150.000 images, and i'm afraid that particular people try to rip it. I've already added some mod rewrite rules in the htaccess file against leeching, but that doesn't stop the rippers. A famous rip-tool is blackwidow, so any ideas how to stop it?
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| Posted by epcmedia, 05-25-2007, 12:21 AM |
| I assume that you already have .htaccess blocking referrals who are from outside of your approved domains. If you are handy with programming, you might be able to insert code into your scripts which would limit leeching on a per IP basis.
An interesting solution might be to use Squid as a reverse proxy and use bit-buckets or other anti-leeching features which are built into the proxy program.
Bit buckets:
For example, you can let incoming connections have the first 5 megabytes at full throttle. A user would empty out his 5 megabytes as fast as you server can send it. Then, after 5 megabytes it would refill at, say 50K per second. This way it would limit the leeching program to downloading at 50k / second. More realistically, I would drop the speed to 1K / second.
I use this setup in a standard proxy fashion for a clients office with 20 users. I imagine similar principals could be used in a reverse fashion to your website.
Lets discuss...
EPCMEIDIA
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| Posted by bannerdoers, 05-26-2007, 03:57 PM |
| doesn't cpanel has this protection feature? have you looked in your control panel? I think it's a very common feature and most well known control panel should have it
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| Posted by yasbas, 05-31-2007, 08:17 AM |
| Have you tried watermarking the images?
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| Posted by guimaraes83, 05-31-2007, 08:48 AM |
| Thanks, that sounds like a good idea.
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| Posted by guimaraes83, 05-31-2007, 08:50 AM |
| No, i use directadmin by the way.
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| Posted by guimaraes83, 05-31-2007, 08:53 AM |
| Yes they are watermarked, but that's not enough to protect the images (and my bandwith ).
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