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Originally Posted by bossku69
With that, anyone know what can be done about hot linking my videos? I host a lot of them on my own server and fuck if im going to pay for some free loader to play them on his site with his affiliate links
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Hi bossku69, an open-source solution would be to use LightTPD along with the mod_sec_download and mod_flv_streaming modules. Ordinarily it's difficult to prevent hotlinking of Flash videos as the Flash players do not send any referring information (and therefore cannot be blocked by .htaccess). With LightTPD and the aforementioned modules, you'll be able to create temporary links to the video content that expire after a period of time.
Now, this probably can't prevent certain programs from sniffing the real link/location of your Flash video files, and so you may want to implement some sort of script or script modification that creates and modifies symlinks to your content at certain intervals, so if a site does successfully leech your videos, they won't be able to do so for very long.
Hopefully someone more experienced with this can come in and offer more suggestions or correct me if I'm wrong. Also, if you need a solid host for your tube sites, give Dedico.com a try
