How Do You Prevent Bandwidth Theft (Or Direct Linking)?
Bandwidth theft has many names: hot linking, remote linking, and it’s most common name- direct linking. Direct linking is when you use a site’s coding to display images on your site. This is done by viewing the source code and using the images’ URLs. When people direct link, they are stealing bandwidth from the original image and/or site owner. There are many ways to help prevent direct linking of images on your site. • The Right-Click Block. This is a simple JavaScript code that goes directly into each of your pages. It disables the right-click (or copy) function. You can prevent a small amount of direct linking by using a right-click block. You can find a free right-click block code from the JavaScript Source. • Changing Filenames. You can prevent some direct linking by periodically changing the names of your files, folders, and images. The more often you change them, the less people can direct link successfully from you. • Changing Images. If you know the images that are being direc
