Argh! Russians stealing bandwidth

[Zappa]

Hi everyone, I've currently got some videos for members on my website however the Russians have embedded them in their website and using MY bandwidth. Is there anyway I can protect them from being hot linked?

Using CMS 1.2.3

Thanks
Ryan

[cyberman]

Restrict access to your website via .htaccess. You can block their websites by ip.

[nivekiam]

Example, straight from one of my .htaccess files.  If you're US based and don't care about ticking off Asia, Europe, etc visitors, this will block a lot of that traffic:

deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

or to just deny the entire IP range:

deny from xxx.

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

videos for members

Members' area ? Isn't it password protected ?

Pierre M.

[tigertamer]

if you have a shared hosting plan, there is a feature you can tick in order for this to be prevented.
I don't remember what they call it, but I enabled it in mine.
this way you don't have to go through the trouble of blocking IPs and risking shutting out part of your audience.
perhaps ask your hosting provider technical support if this can be done.

[tigertamer]

I just checked (thought it would take longer to find it so I didn't bother in my earlier post),
my hosting provider calls it simply HOTLINK PROTECTION.  So just enable that if you have a [.htaccess Editor] menu item in your hosting control panel.
I can define by directory (or simply \), with all subdirectories, by domain name, and specify which extentions to prevent from hotlinking to (jpg jpe jpeg mpg mpeg avi bmp gif) for example.