I found out that someone is linking to some of my banners on one of my affiliate sites, I assume to preserve their own bandwidth usage. I was wondering if there is a way to embed an iframe containing my affiliate link within this image so that I get hits whenever someone loads his page.

If not, I'll probably just rename the files on my site and throw up some doggy pron pics on the ones he is linking.

edit: I'm not sure if iframe is the correct idea here. Basically I'm just wanting the url to load along with the .gif image.

Send the site owner an invoice for using your images, along with transfer records showing his usage :)

I would post the link here but it's not really appropriate...but in last friday's b3ta.com newsletter there was a guy who had an image being hotlinked by an Italian politician...so he changed it for something not very appropriate and emailed a load of italian newspapers :P

It is possible to stop image leeching or whatever in cPanel I think...

Send the site owner an invoice for using your images, along with transfer records showing his usage :)

We did something like this when we found someone using our entire design, text and all (before DMCA was in place). Sent him a bill for the full design he'd stolen, and he paid it. We removed ours, and redid it.

We did something like this when we found someone using our entire design, text and all (before DMCA was in place). Sent him a bill for the full design he'd stolen, and he paid it. We removed ours, and redid it.


Wow, thats pretty awesome, You wouldn't think a theif would be so willing to cough up the money.

I would post the link here but it's not really appropriate...but in last friday's b3ta.com newsletter there was a guy who had an image being hotlinked by an Italian politician...so he changed it for something not very appropriate and emailed a load of italian newspapers :P

It is possible to stop image leeching or whatever in cPanel I think...

Indeed, you just need to activate the Hotlink Protection in CPanel. Once you do that, you also get options to specify Urls which you want to allow access.

You could add some code to your htaccess to stop it as well. I found a nice page here (http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html) on some code that you can add.

I think changing the image would be just peachy. Then be sure to take a screenshot of the site after the change and slap it on Stumbleupon.

That would be great.

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Thales

The invoice idea sounds interesting - not sure if you'll have as much luck but it'll let the other party know you're aware and maybe shake them up a bit.

Although I found that it's possible to insert code into a gif, I couldn't find how to do it so I went with the substitute image. They caught it after about 12 hours, hopefully the search engines cached it.

Did you snag a screenshot? What was it an image of?

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Thales

What was the image you put up in place of the old image?

Mike

I probably shouldn't post the pic so here's a link to it. A little Planned Parenthood spoof ad. View at your own discretion. No nudity but very suggestive.

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LAWL! That... is... great...

If the content leech didn't learn their lesson, then they have to have a few screws loose.

I vote a Digg or Stumble for this thread.

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Thales

I probably shouldn't post the pic so here's a link to it. A little Planned Parenthood spoof ad. View at your own discretion. No nudity but very suggestive.

No, you shouldn't post that pic, or a link to it. :wht: