Anti hotlinking for movies?

[Mattyboy]

I got a load of Chinese boards hotlinking my free movie (WMV) trailers.
Does anyone use http://www.antihotlinking.com or know of any other software to stop movie hotlinking?
Regular .htaccess doesn't work for movies.

[dvtimes]

One simple option is to convert your films to flash, and use frash films on your site.

[Mattyboy]

Thanks but theres no way i'm using Flash :)

[SGS]

One simple option is to convert your films to flash, and use frash films on your site.

That would kill sales. Punters want to see trailers of *actual* content inside your site.

Marketing 101.

[Mattyboy]

That would kill sales. Punters want to see trailers of *actual* content inside your site.

Marketing 101.

Exactly :thumbsup:
We offer a low quality version (which we make clear) on the tours.

[SGS]

Exactly :thumbsup:
We offer a low quality version (which we make clear) on the tours.

:)

We used to use Antihotlinking a year or so back one one of our FHG servers but found the aditional load on the server very high plus it stopped cache-ing which we found to be a problem.

Why not just use a geo script and block the problem countries like everyone else does now?

[JT]

Redirect the chinese surfers to chocker, he pays a few pence for them I believe. Not really a way to solve the problem long term, but short term its an option

[Joe A]

Matt

Just block the ip's.. Something I haven't stopped doing for a while :) Only prob I blocked a pal of mine here in the UK.. LOL.

[mellenig]

I have anti hot linking on my server I submit movie galleries on, found it to work very well. It does put a load on the server but saying that its saved me a ton in bandwidth with hotlinked movies from my galleries. I found the movie boards to be more of a problem.

[Mattyboy]

I have anti hot linking on my server I submit movie galleries on, found it to work very well. It does put a load on the server but saying that its saved me a ton in bandwidth with hotlinked movies from my galleries. I found the movie boards to be more of a problem.

Are you using http://www.antihotlinking.com and can i ask what spec your server is?

[Zappu]

Anti Hotlinking for videos is just possible if you will use a session based solution, or the less secure via cookies

[mellenig]

Are you using http://www.antihotlinking.com and can i ask what spec your server is?

Yes Ive been using it since it more or less first came out. The server spec is Intel P4 2.8 GHz w/HT
HD: 80 GB
RAM: 1 GB
Its just used for movie galleries.