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Originally posted by Lenny2
You can also get the names of most of the site rippers and disallow that user agent in your htaccess file.
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We do this and it works pretty well however there is a penalty in server load that with this method. There might be better solutions from an efficiency point of view but it's pretty effective.
The real hardcore rippers will know how to change their user agents to defeat an htaccess based system although as you well know, the majority of the surfers out there are just plain dumb.