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Originally posted by Feynman
Is it part of the TOS that site rippers are not to be used ?
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From my experience people don't really care what is in the TOS. I could completely understand someone having this on their paysite members area. Paysite owners make money on recurring billing, and if someone comes in and downloads the entire site in 15 minutes, then cancels that hurts their recurring cash flow. Think of all the galleries that are submitted to MGP's on a daily basis and how much bandwidth Movies take up, for people to make a sale. Now imagine someone using a download manager to crawl The Hun or someone else and download all the movies linked on that site.
Now if you are the guy trying to refer pepople and folks are using download managers you are getting reamed of your bandwidth without them even seeing advertising. There are many uses for the htaccess script above, and i say GOOD WORK !
AJ