Decrease the number of reported links?

[Whoo]

Ive seen people using paste2, and some other sites to protect their links, would that work?

Thing is, that isnt allowed by katz

[Mr Happy]

Thing is, that isnt allowed by katz

Is'nt allowed yet however it maybe something they have to look into in the future.


Looking at it from a different view and protecting instead of re-uploading.

You could try and identify the bot(s) and hide any links to them. Depending on how advanced the bot is it may be possible to track get the useragent and hide just the link OR which would be really cool to modify a digit in the link before displaying it so it things your site is full of dead links and goes elsewhere.

Obviously this is a lot more advanced and time consuming and while an option for you wouldn't be possible for most other webmasters to try.

[Whoo]

Good idea Mr Happy, I might go checking the server logs to see if any weird useragent popped up

Edit: Just been paying around with the logs abit, I picked a randomly reported download with not too much views and I scraped the user agents together with the OS from the server logs (Yes I can do that lol)

If anyone wan't to have a go at looking for any weird bots that might be the problem of the reported downloads here you go: http://whoo.ws/useragents.txt

PS: If anyone is going to complain about privacy and shit, I don't share anything that might offend anyone in any way, I simply list the browser people use and their operating system.

[dermechove]

I don't know if you will like this idea or not but you may use DLC containers to protect your links but this will have some effect on your users and will force them to download JDownloader to download from your site.
Also what El Jentel said about mirroring your files applies to the containers too and I think that container are easier to be mirrored then files.
the point of using DLC container is that the download link of your files are never seen by the user and ur files will never be deleted so if there is something to be deleted it will be the container only.

[Whoo]

I don't know if you will like this idea or not but you may use DLC containers to protect your links but this will have some effect on your users and will force them to download JDownloader to download from your site.
Also what El Jentel said about mirroring your files applies to the containers too and I think that container are easier to be mirrored then files.
the point of using DLC container is that the download link of your files are never seen by the user and ur files will never be deleted so if there is something to be deleted it will be the container only.

It's a good idea but I want my site to be easy to use for every user, this includes the noobie computer users who have no clue what a download manager is.

[Royal King]

Infinite chain
Nice way. I like it

[SplitIce]

I wrote a script to analyse traffic patterns and Identify mass crawlers ages ago for tws. Worked well but required human training (in the form of inserting reported threads).

I disbanded it when I moved to Ecatel due to not receiving any DMCAs.

@el_j: Hmm I could probably automate that

[The Coon]

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[discodancer]

nice picture el_jentel1, but I dont think it will work. I'm not familiar with MU but I dont think they have a way to change the MD5. That means you cant store the file because the md5 string is blocked and it will be automaticly deleted.
I made a test with Rapidshare, uploaded a file that had been deleted. I tried with a renamed file, a renamed rared file, a renamed rared in a split archive file but they all were automaticly deleted. Then I changed the md5 of the original deleted file uploaded it and there was no problem.
I read about this before and they check the md5 id of the file and only save one copy of the file. Don't know if it's true but it makes sense.

[Ufkabakan]

Any suggestions for screet mirror like el_jentel1 system?
I dont want to use MU, maybe some one know good down/up sped FileHost with unlimited trafik for Prem users?