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Originally posted by 4Pics
This sounds great except do you plan to pay me Mr webmaster the bandwith you are using by sucking down all my pictures only to prove I own the rights to use all of them?
Also can't they just do a robots not allowed or block the spider by ip/stamp with htaccess?
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On the first question of the bandwidth issue. You are correct that Sniffy will be downloading images off of your website and that will incur some kind of bandwidth charge, but it is no different than a surfer that has found your site, went through your pages, viewed all of your pic of the day, or guest pics, then decided they didn't want to buy anything you had to sell.
You don't and can't charge these people for "wasting" your bandwidth, it's all apart of doing business.
Sniffy will be responsible and a good visitor by not overburdening your servers.. it acts just like any surfer and will not cause any more harm than a normal surfer.
On your other point about trying to block. Yes, a webmaster could try to block us, and of course that would just raise our suspicions as why someone would want to hide.
Since sniffy spiders from several ISP and IP's, it would be hard to block it. Sniffy is smart enough to get around referer and IP type blocks, in order to do its job.
I would hope that only a small handful of affiliate webmasters would be concerned about sniffy's actions, since they would be initiated on behalf of an affiliates sponsor, to ensure compliance with THEIR policy of no CP sites.
Sniffy is not meant to be a big brother type operative. We would hope that fellow webmasters would be supportive of any measures that could help reduce CP.
-dj