FreeHugeMovies

I have started to make movie galleries and I protect them with a cookie in the html page which allows people to download them ONLY when they are viewing my gallery.

Now, a lot of the movie forums (hotlinkiners) post the direct URL from which the movies are located on the server. When they click the movie they are currently taken to my movie post.

My question is. What should I do to these hotlinkers? Just keep on pointing them to my movie post or shall I have them go to an html page that has an auto pop up for a dialer and then send them to some exit traffic program, then send them to my movie post? Suggestions?

TaDoW

Make some fuckin money off em!

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let's talk dialers :-D

Lexxx

I would send them to a new FEB's FreeMoviesEzine.com - get a buck outta these freeloaders...

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deniska

Why not send them right to your sponsors filter page. I would not use a dialer. If they are downloading movies chances are they are on some sort of broad band connection which makes it more likely for them to have a credit card. That?s just my opinion I am not an expert

FreeHugeMovies

Well the ppl who are at these forums know what they are doing so I don't think a dialer will work.

evildick

Try this:

http://php.offshoreclicks.com/cgi-bin/ref.cgi?referral

If you promote the dialer and someone starts to download it but then cancels, you can still redirect them to whatever page you want. You set up what page you want it to go to in the stats section. So you don't lose the traffic anyway.

Or just use the impression program and make 0.3 cents for every one of the bastards that hits your files.

Exxxotica

Agreed.

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playa

surfers on the porn boards are professional porn surfers,,,

their worser than chinese traffic,,, there not your average TGP freeloader

FreeHugeMovies

N E one else know of a good trick?

The Hun

So, now everybody who has cookies disabled (which included a lot of people 'cause somehow some people think cookies can harm a computer) are redirected as well... including people with a filled up temp internet file directory (which are quite a lot of people actually, I get a lot of people asking why I didn't update when in fact I updated, which usually means their temp internet file directory is full. Also, I get report from people saying they can not save JPEG anymore, but that all images show up as BMP, which has the same reason)... hm...

Trenton

Dam nigga! Your school must have taught Ebonics or something!
Bro, you makin us look bad! LOL

zip

Nice clips you have there...

Where do I license those flix?

pr0

you seriously need to shut the fuck up

tree

pr0 you bitch hit me up on icq

hahmike

But there are no other options available to protect movie files. To say "don't do it if you can't afford to be hotlinked" would be harsh. If a webmaster is making good money from his galleries, then he won't want to give it up... visitors with no cookies will be sacrificed until there is an alternate method to protect movie files.

It is possible to protect a movie file with htaccess so that they can't be downloaded via right click. But it is still possible to left click due to the fact that htaccess has no effect on the movie players - such as Windows Media Player. Guess what? I'd use that and gladly state on my page to "LEFT CLICK" to view movies, but I wouldn't be listed because site owners that link me want to impress the visitors and earn loyalty. You know the deal Hun... you want all pictures, I want all banners. ;-)

I make movie galleries and hotlinkers stink. I'm always getting hotlinked from movie forums... if I had no protection then my bandwidth bill would double or even triple. Should I quit doing movie galleries because I can't afford to have bandwidth stolen for me? Nope. It is the same principal if I tell you that you're going to have to pay three times more for your hosting from now on, or shut down the Yellow Pages, Thumbs Up, etc etc.

Imagine you're starting out as a webmaster now and you discovered that you can make $2k a week from movie galleries. You can be hotlinked, and give all your money to the bandwidth fees... or you can sacrifice 10 to 15% of your visitors and keep making money from it.

Sure it isn't good for some surfers, they lose trust, and so on... but there is no alternative available. At least I send those non-cookie or hotlinker traffic to a clean page with no exits (the main page of my tgp).