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Old 10-17-2008, 08:11 AM  
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Originally Posted by daizzzy View Post
how to be if someone eats too much traffic via hotlinking (especially chinese, which can easy eat >100 GB/day) except of disallowing via mods in situation when it's impossible to use temporary links. do abuses work? is there any sense to send abuse to registrar or to hoster only?

and how to be w/ streaming videos, where it's not easy to determine who hotlinks u
i notice alot of tube sites are using a script to rename their files every X minutes.

I would have to look at your current setup to advise how to integrate it but certainly not impossible,

as far as abuse complaints, hotlinking is not illlegal and for the most part not against many host's TOS so that avenue is fairly useless
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