{"id":655,"date":"2023-12-26T11:05:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T11:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/?page_id=655"},"modified":"2023-12-26T11:05:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T11:05:30","slug":"hotlinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/hotlinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotlinking Not Supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/hotlinking\/#What_is_HotLinking\" >What is HotLinking?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/hotlinking\/#Why_do_sites_do_it\" >Why do sites do it?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/hotlinking\/#What_can_we_do_to_stop_Hotlinking_sites\" >What can we do to stop Hotlinking sites?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_HotLinking\"><\/span>What is HotLinking?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In a nutshell hotlinking is where a unauthorised 3rd party links directly to files and downloads hosted by someone else, often the author or creator, material that doesn&#8217;t belong to them or that they have permission to use, typically as a means to exploit the Visitors traffic for AdClick revenue unbeknownst to them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a practice commonly regarded by many, content creators and authors in particular, as an abuse of material that might otherwise have been freely provided, and is derogatorily known as &#8220;<em>file leaching<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>bandwidth theft<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>traffic hijacking<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>content jacking<\/em>&#8221; and a whole host of other &#8216;names&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_do_sites_do_it\"><\/span>Why do sites do it?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Money.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;scam&#8217; isn&#8217;t to host the files or provide any sense of a legitimate service in that respect. It&#8217;s simply about page-views and visitor hits &#8211; the more they can get, the greater the revenue generated through Advertising; it&#8217;s why these sites are typically loaded to the gills with pop-up, pop-unders, video ads, scrolling ads, time-delayed ads, anything in fact which tricks the user in to a click regardless as to whether they wanted to or not.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;huckster-ism&#8221; in another word.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_can_we_do_to_stop_Hotlinking_sites\"><\/span>What can we do to stop Hotlinking sites?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Short term<\/strong>: avoid using them. If you are looking for a specific file take a few moments more to check link destinations before clicking. Or check who the originator of the file is and go directly to their site; HotLinkers only exist because people use them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long term<\/strong>: solutions are more complicated and requires content owners take an active stance on their &#8216;data&#8217; being used in a way that&#8217;s &#8216;harmful&#8217; to their continued existence.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; support legitimate creators, authors and distributors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-655","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","comments-off"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}