Candace
Well-Known Member
I've noticed over the last year, that I've had a large percentage of bandwidth use of my site and I've been unable to track where the use was coming from. Finally, I've tracked it down to some Russian forums and sites. They are hot-linking my photos and I see lots of familiar names and photos on this one site in particular http://translate.google.com/transla...nt=safari&rls=en&biw=1199&bih=1001&prmd=imvns
I had it translated in English. It looks like most to all of her photos, used in her commercial business are hot-linked to our sites. Now this isn't such a big deal to some, but from what I can gather, 65% of the hits from my personal site are from other countries websites that are hot linking to mine. If you don't care, no worries. Though if you're interested check out her site and see if you can find any of your pics:<
Anyone speak or write passable Russian?:>
I should add, I don't mind folks using my bandwidth for forums and discussion type settings, but commercial folks using my material, really rubs me the wrong way.
I had it translated in English. It looks like most to all of her photos, used in her commercial business are hot-linked to our sites. Now this isn't such a big deal to some, but from what I can gather, 65% of the hits from my personal site are from other countries websites that are hot linking to mine. If you don't care, no worries. Though if you're interested check out her site and see if you can find any of your pics:<
Anyone speak or write passable Russian?:>
I should add, I don't mind folks using my bandwidth for forums and discussion type settings, but commercial folks using my material, really rubs me the wrong way.