Hotlinkers Stealing Bandwidth

**devarioj** · 08-20-2007, 07:30 AM

so this will stop people who use the <embed> to post a vid on thier site? or just people who get a little sophisticted and try to direct leech

**porkd** · 08-20-2007, 07:05 PM

I am a bit confused...:)

What does it mean to steal bandwidth? I doubt it is happening to me yet but I would like to prevent. However, I do not want to stop poeple from using the embed code to place on other sites.

Can someone please clarify?

**zeffer** · 08-20-2007, 08:17 PM

The person i stopped was using my bandwidth to use on his site without giving credit to where he had embedded it from. He was just using the flv straight from my site.

**devarioj** · 08-20-2007, 09:18 PM

oh wow, yeah that is a problem (the .flv usage)

to the previous poster. DO you want to get rid of the embed code for ALL of you videos? Or just some.

**SportsGamingTV.com** · 08-20-2007, 10:23 PM

Maybe I have misunderstood, but I do not believe this interferes with embedding at all. For example, here's a video I just embedded from Zeffer's site.

http://idiggi.blogspot.com/2007/08/x-ga ... e-out.html

As you can see, it plays fine. I think this code just prevents direct linking. If I'm wrong, hopefully someone will correct me before I put it on my own site. lol

**zeffer** · 08-20-2007, 10:29 PM

No that site dosent have it, the one you got that vid from.

**SportsGamingTV.com** · 08-21-2007, 01:23 AM

Ah, ok. So does it stop people from being able to embed videos as well? I hate to be open to bandwidth thieves, but I think having embedded videos is nearly essential for a video sharing site.