: In addition to what mickburkejnr suggested, I'd also say that if images are your main source of income for the site, investing in a good flash photo gallery is going to be a good way to

@Rivera981

In addition to what mickburkejnr suggested, I'd also say that if images are your main source of income for the site, investing in a good flash photo gallery is going to be a good way to help deter them. There are tools out there to decompile the flash files, but disabling javascript can be done within each browser easily as well.

I'd also recommend that you disallow crawlers like xenu, wget and curl so that they aren't simply using wget to scrape the contents of your site.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xenu's [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^curl
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.robotstxt.org/

As a note, denying curl by itself is in itself, not much of a fix as curl can emulate pretty much any string they need to. To disable hotlinking of the images, put this in your .htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?yourdomainname.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|png|ico)$ – [F,L]
</ifModule>

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