Can someone help me decipher this?

[Dzinerbear]

Hi all,

I guess I'm learning that TGP also means: Take my God Damned Pictures.

If you go to this link: http://www.sunnytgp.com/?virginboys.net

You'll see a young, slim blonde guy jerking off and making a cum face. He's in third position, top row. (I'll post a picture of it here just in case the page changes) The blonde guy belongs to me and as the code below indicates, it's hosted on my site:

href="/x/x.cgi?link=P3-G2&p=35&url=http://www.eurodisiac.com/cumsoda/pavel/index5.html"><img src="http://66.111.39.232/sunnytgp/497470cw.jpg"

I never submitted to this TGP. I know for sure because in my first run I only submitted to tive TGPs and kept scrupulous notes.

Now for the really fun part, when you click the link you actually only get to my gallery one out of every five or six times.

So any suggestions on what I do about this? If I change the link, then the TGPs that I did submit to will likely ban me. If I leave it the way it is, I've got (I assuming) this guy stealing my pictures and bandwidth to fill up his gallery and then only getting the clicked traffic over to my submission one-fifth of the time.

Am I correct or am I missing something? And if I'm dealing with a pirate, how do I protect myself?

Sorry, I'm having problems getting the image of that site's page attached here.

Nice, I love this business. :boom:
Thanks
Dzinerbear

[Dzinerbear]

I just found another TGP that I didn't submit to with a link to my Czech guy, but in this case the link always goes to my page, which is cool.

So, it is safe to assume then that once you submit to a couple of TGPs everyone and his brother will grab your stuff and use it in their TGPs (even though you haven't given them a recip) just to fill out their galleries. And in some of those cases the people will pull quick ones like bait and switch links and in others, they'll do the right thing and sent the traffic to my page?

Thanks
Dzinerbear

[Chilihost]

This looks like a CJ site. Some TGP and CJ sites go out and copy links from other tgp sites. Usually these guys go out and copy links from the bigger TGP sites like thehun. I could not see your gallery but you will notice that everytime you hit refresh all new galleries are displayed.

The reason you are getting to your gallery only once every 5 clicks is cuz he is trading off 80% of his clicks to other sites to try to boost his traffic numbers.

Personally I do not see this as a problem since every once in a while you do actually get traffic to your gallery and that traffic is as valid as any other TGP traffic. I only have a problem with sites that hotlink your thumbs and/or images, cuz they are using your bandwidth for their gain. To avoid this make sure you are using .htaccess hotlink protection.


Cheers!

Luke

[Dzinerbear]

Gottcha, thanks Luke.

But I guess if I use htaccess to prevent hotlinking and I set it up so that only CumSoda, for example, can access a specific directory, then if some other TGP wants to grab that link and use it legitimately and correctly, then I'd be preventing them. Correct?

I am noticing in my logs that I've got a fair number of TGPs sending me traffic and I never submitted to them. But since I'm getting traffic, I'm not complaining.

So I guess it's all a balancing act of figuring out who isn't playing by the rules.

Thanks again
Dzinerbear

[coctronic]

I have had that happen with my galleries. I sometimes think maybe that the tgp operator might be using your gallery on multiple tgp sites that they own, but I'm not sure about that.

I suppose if you think they are using your pics without a license and it is exclusive to you, you might notify them to stop using them.

It's hard to know what to think about it.

[Lee]

Originally posted by Dzinerbear
But I guess if I use htaccess to prevent hotlinking and I set it up so that only CumSoda, for example, can access a specific directory, then if some other TGP wants to grab that link and use it legitimately and correctly, then I'd be preventing them. Correct?

Michael yes that right however.. what *I* would choose to do is this :devil:

Instead of blocking access to that directory from that domain solely use the fact the webmaster is using your bandwidth to your advantage by 'replacing' the image using .htaccess.

So the TGP owner 'thinks' he is linking to a pic of yours but what is actually happening is you are showing the surfers who see that image a completely differnt picture of your choice for example.. a white thumbnail with a url to one of your domains on it

I dont have the coding available to hand right now to enable this however im sure Luke or one of the other community members will be able to help you out with and if not, ill post it first thing in the morning for you

Regards,

Lee

[Lee]

Actually i lied... i did have the code in my bookmarks hehe.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://domain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.domain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://domain.com:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.domain.com:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://i.p.ad.dre.ss*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://i.p.ad.dre.ss:80.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*[Jj][Pp][Gg]$|.*[Gg][Ii][Ff]$ http://www.domain.com/imagename.jpg

In the above code, imagename.jpg would be the location of an image on your server that literally has either the url to one of your sites on it or, some message along the lines of the site that the surfer is seeing that image on is being run by a theif.. either way your call personally i would go the URL route myself

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Lee

[coctronic]

Now that's an idea I like Lee. Mind if I copy the code for use on my sites?:goof:

[Lee]

Not at all go for it

Regards,

Lee

[Dzinerbear]

Would I need to use all three sets ReWrite Cond's, or could I just use the first set with his domain name?

And just for my info, what is the :80 all about?

Thanks very much, Lee, for the tip and help.
Dzinerbear

[Chilihost]

Dz: you only need the first rewrites for it to work, Lee was just being extra cautious including the other two sets. FYI, port 80 is the standard http port so anyone coming in to your site using http is already on port 80 (those rewrites are redundant). Also, you would want to discourage people using your IP address to surf to your site since a change in hosts would lose those surfers instantly!

cheers,
Luke

[Gary-Alan]

Originally posted by Chilihost
Dz: you only need the first rewrites for it to work, Lee was just being extra cautious including the other two sets. FYI, port 80 is the standard http port so anyone coming in to your site using http is already on port 80 (those rewrites are redundant). Also, you would want to discourage people using your IP address to surf to your site since a change in hosts would lose those surfers instantly!

cheers,
Luke

Didn't know about port 80. I always wondered what that meant.

Thanks for explainging that, Luke.

My best,
Gary