Anti Hot Linking Ideas?

Hey everyone I am looking at a product:

Please post your thoughts here would like to see some feedback. would you pay for this product I am about to pay couple of hundred dollars not a bi deal but still do i need it?


AHL (AntiHotLinker) Information


We have the only working solution to protect your movie files against hotlinking. AHL (AntiHotLinker) provides bullet proof anti hotlinking protection and full control of hotlinking traffic. AHL (AntiHotLinker) not only saves bandwidth, it makes money!

THERE WAS NO WAY TO PROPERLY PROTECT MOVIES BEFORE AHL (AntiHotLinker)
Standard Apache Rewrite Module that you use to protect images cannot protect movies, since movie players do not pass referrers and you have to allow visitors without referrer information, thus leaving your movie files open for hotlinkers.
Use of cookie based protection fails since there are plenty of visitors that turn off that feature in their browser settings. You also have to include a Java Script on all your pages to use this feature and it creates problems with people who turn off Java Scripts in their browsers as well.
Use of any other method utilizing scripts written in PHP, CGI or Java Scrip creates problems with TGP scripts that simply blacklist submissions with script statements in the HTML documents. This is not to mention that you have to rewrite all your existing pages with the new code, which is time consuming and will lead to a definite blacklist of all your domains, emails, and IP's.


SAVE MONEY ON YOUR BANDWIDTH BILL
Our statistics show that approximately 15% of all movie requests come from visitors generated by the hotlinkers posting direct links to your movies. These include: a) bulletin boards all over the world (mainly in Asia and Eastern Europe); cheating TGPs, Movie Posts, CJs, free sites, and even pay sites run by cheating webmasters; c) friend to friend email links; d) direct movie bookmarks. Visitors from all of those sources use your bandwidth but never see any of your advertisements!

MAKE MONEY ON HOTLINKING TRAFFIC
AHL (AntiHotLinker) allows you to take control of the hotlinking traffic by redirecting it to your sponsors, traffic trades and so on. Our experience shows that this traffic sells very well to dialers, email collection and "for free" programs. The hotlinking webmaster does not know that the movies are protected because he visited your html document where you posted the movie and was allowed to view these movies. But all consecutive visitors who will try to open your movies without seeing your html pages will be redirected to your favorite destination. :-)

AHL (AntiHotLinker) FEATURES
Protects all file types (default .asf .wmv .avi .mov .mpg .mpeg .rm)
Protects all your existing documents without any modifications required in these documents.
Does not require any special coding in your HTML documents.
Runs on Unix/Linux server at the Apache level with minimal server load and memory usage.
Supports unlimited number of domains (virtual hosts).
TGP compliant. Works with all known TGP scripts.
Gives full control of the hotlinking traffic. You can redirect it to you favorite destination.
Displays status report with information about the number of Allowed and Hotlinked Movie Requests.
Log hotlinking attempts, hotlinkers IP addresses and referring URLs (if referring URL was available)

[Winetalk.com]

you don't need it,
it can all be done with a simple htaccess

[dantheman]

we provide this service to any client of ours that needs it.

Originally posted by dantheman@May 14 2003, 04:40 PM
we provide this service to any client of ours that needs it.

Do you charge for it?
Is it your own product or did you buy it off someone?

[dantheman]

we did it inhouse, not saying it's better,worse than what your offering, there's in a market for movie protection for sure. I've seen many webmasters get hammered on bandwidth for sure.

Good luck

Originally posted by dantheman@May 14 2003, 04:52 PM
we did it inhouse, not saying it's better,worse than what your offering, there's in a market for movie protection for sure. I've seen many webmasters get hammered on bandwidth for sure.

Good luck

Thank you
the only thing we are not ofereing it but rather looking to buy it

[Rolo]

Would not pay, since we have our own inhouse team of programmers ;-))... but for "a couple of hundred dollars" it sounds cheap if you compare it with the possible bandwidth bill you could receive because of some hotlinker.

Originally posted by dantheman@May 14 2003, 04:52 PM
we did it inhouse, not saying it's better,worse than what your offering, there's in a market for movie protection for sure. I've seen many webmasters get hammered on bandwidth for sure.

Good luck

dantheman how do i contact you off line one of my friends is interested in your service if you can offer this type of service included

[Winetalk.com]

there are tons of free scripts there:
http://opranosearch.com/msgboard/links.html

[dantheman]

Originally posted by WHS+May 14 2003, 04:28 PM-->