Users Have Reported More Than  10,000 Hotlinks Detected So Far

They're In The Business Of Stealing Your Property And Ruining Your Reputation . . .

Hotlinkers And Digital Pirates Are Stealing Your Content And Using It To Deliver Malware And Scumware Right Now

HotlinkALARM Software Detects Hotlinking, Alerts You Instantly By Email.
Protect Your Website Image, Audio, Video And Other Files Beginning Today.

Dear Online Colleague: 

First they copy your website content, hotlinking to your business logo, website graphics and product files in the process. They know you likely won't discover the theft until it's too late. Besides, why should they take the time to make their own content when it's so easy to steal yours?

Next they paste your copyrighted material on their criminal website, using your content and your reputation to drive traffic. From there they offload malware and scumware. 

It's a rotten deal all the way around. Unsuspecting visitors now confront an infected computer. Meantime, you're confronting the surprise of your life and fielding questions from angry people who believe you're responsible for infecting their computers.

detecting hotlinking malware sites

This short video describes what happened to one of our customers who worked hard to build a website and brand identity — only to have pirates hotlink his logo and website graphics and use them to help deliver malware. This is only one example of the pirates' deviousness.  Keep reading after you watch the short video. You'll see how thieves commonly steal digital property and sell it on eBay. 


HotlinkALARM Detects 284 Hotlinks To A Customer's Website, Exposes Malware Distribution Site


HotlinkALARM is Brand New software technology released on January 15. It gives you a distinct advantage over hotlinkers and digital thieves, serving as an early warning system that an unauthorized website is displaying your digital property, draining your bandwidth and possibly even stealing your products and brand identity — perhaps even your personal identity.

Digital piracy is the plague of the 21st Century. Sometimes it's a thief working alone. And often it's an organized band of thieves with a common goal: To enrich themselves at your expense by stealing your digital property.

Protect Your Website With HotlinkALARM!

HotlinkALARM adds security to your web presence. It gives you an edge over pirates — and you'll reclaim your intellectual property and the traffic you're losing to thieves.

Our proprietary technology detects hotlinking and is customizable to suit your precise needs. Two things happen:

How to stop image hotlinking with Hotlink AlarmYou'll get an email that informs you someone is hotlinking to your digital property — images, audio files, video files, PDFs, Zips. HotlinkALARM protects virtually all file types. This email includes the URL of the hotlinking web page, the type of file that's being hotlinked, and other information about the website. You can set the HotlinkALARM system to email you each time a hotlink is detected or once a day.

This will appear in your inbox:

HotlinkALARM warning email about image hotlinking

This is the message:

Hotlink ALARM hotlink warning URL

How can I tell if someone is hotlinking my images Hotlink AlarmHotlinkALARM substitutes your files on the hotlinker's website with our special default image that announces to the world that the website owner is displaying unauthorized property. And if you choose to use the unique PowerALARM technology included with HotlinkALARM, you'll also have the option of creating your own graphics and tailoring a message you'd like the hotlinker's website visitors to see, if you don't want to use our default image.

Hotlink ALARM Warning

What's really cool is the thieves won't necessarily know you've caught them. Our proprietary technology gives you the option to hide the discovery from them for a limited time. Following that time period, people who visit their website will see messages that the hotlinking image pirate can't see.

HotlinkALARM includes a default image, plus a selection of other images you're free to employ. Our graphics come in an assortment of sizes. Think our messages might make an impression on the audience of the thief?

Hotlink Alarm Protects Against Image Theft"Graphics Piracy Detected By HotlinkALARM!"
Hotlink Alarm Penalizes Bandwidth Thieves"This Website Owner Is Using Unauthorized Images. Click Here To Visit The Website Of The Copyright-Holder."
Hotlink Alarm Protects Against Image Hotlinking" HotlinkALARM Stops Image Pirates Dead In Their Tracks And Redirects Stolen Traffic To The Rightful Owner."

Inspired By A Brazen eBay Thief

eBay is one of the world's great businesses, empowering ordinary people from across the globe to make money online from home. Its success as a "Destination" website, however, also makes it a favorite marketplace for hotlinkers, product thieves and digital pirates. 

Such was the case in October 2007, when a digital pirate stole our highly successful eBook, "20 Ways To Make $100 Per Day Online" and posted an illegal eBay auction.

Not only did the thief take our product and slash the price from $27 to $9.99, he also hotlinked to the images on our server. Incredible as it seems, he stole our product and our carefully crafted brand identity and drove traffic to his illegal auction by using images he pulled from our web server.

Think it couldn't happen to you? Well, it's time to think again. These are actual screenshots of the thief's eBay auction:

illegal eBay auctions

eBay fraud

hotlinking on eBay

Basically we had two choices: Play by the thief's rules and lose control of our product, profits and intellectual property — or do something about it.

We chose the latter. HotlinkALARM was born after we learned a very important lesson: If it's not nailed down, somebody will take it. HotlinkALARM nails it down.

Piracy Is Real. It's Happening Right Now!

While hotlinkers and pirates are pumping up their profits at your expense, your brand is getting diluted and your server is pulling files for a thief. That's not good in any case, but it's especially bad if you use a shared hosting account. Most Internet Marketers and small businesses online use shared hosting. Image pirates put your server and hosting account at risk.

But theft of ordinary graphics is only part of the risk. You'll be in deep, deep bandwidth trouble if a hotlinker steals your videos and audios, sucking the life out of your server.

The message of these contemptible, hotlinking pirates is simple:

"Not only am I going to steal your property, I'm going to rub your face in it and hand you the bill!"

Well, HotlinkALARM is an excellent way to track down thieves who are illegally selling your product!

Image theft and hotlinking occur daily worldwide — and not just on eBay and other auction sites. Dishonest Bloggers steal intellectual property, converting it to their own use. So do corrupt webmasters.  So do solo thieves and organized piracy groups, some of which operate from half a world away. 

In the worst cases, the thieves even may steal a digital photograph of you and post it in forums and elsewhere. They might even pose as you, making identity theft part of their poison plan. Somebody could be paying them for products, thinking they're paying you. That's what happened to us on eBay.

Know what else? Pirates even may steal digital photographs of your customers, friends and colleagues who provide Testimonials for you — and they could pose as them. It's enough to ruin a good day in a hurry.

Pirates Are The Plague Of The Online Business World

Retail theft is a $100 billion problem globally. As online commerce expands, so do the opportunities for pirates and thieves. Sometimes the thieves work alone. But often they're part of an organized band of pirates with a common goal: To enrich themselves at your expense by stealing your digital property and brand identity.

Pirates can heist your intellectual property even if they live on the other side of the world. Their specialty is stealing your hard work, your graphics, your products, your brand identity — even your personal identity. That's what they did to us until we said "No More!" by creating HotlinkALARM.

Chances are good that your website is losing business to thieves. Ours was. The eBay thief's customers didn't know they were dealing with a pirate. They even left him positive feedback! In essence, the pirate was leeching off of our positive brand identity, using our intellectual property to create profits for himself at our expense.

how to protect images from hotlinking

We went to work immediately to take the advantage away from the thief. The discussions about creating HotlinkALARM and programming it to disarm pirates began only hours after we noticed the illegal eBay auction.

HotlinkALARM is a dynamic software suite that protects your digital assets from theft, empowering you to plug profit leaks and regain control over your intellectual property, your brand and your good name. 

HotlinkALARM protects virtually all file types. The product can benefit you instantly if you use any of these common file types on your web pages:

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Here's What HotlinkALARM Users Say . . .

"Goes Way Beyond My Expectations . . ."

"HotlinkAlarm is exactly what I've been looking for.

"From download to installation it was super easy to set up and get going right the first time. The questions asked during the install were easy for me to answer and the Control Panel is easy to navigate.

"Knowing that HotlinkAlarm is going to notify me by email if any graphic is being hotlinked and even telling me the website where it is gives me the time to concentrate more on building my sites and worry less about somebody stealing my products.

"The PowerAlarm features are fantastic, it goes way beyond my expectations. I am installing this on every server I use. It even worked on my self-hosted Wordpress sites.

"Super-easy, Newbie-friendly, High-tech. I will be highly recommending this program."

Yvonne Lyon
http://www.revengeofthenewbies.com/therotnblog



PowerALARM Protection Included!

HotlinkALARM is extremely versatile. Included with the software is a dynamic PowerALARM option that gives you each of these robust capabilities:

Power ALARM Protection by Hotlink ALARMDelivering an image you create to the hotlinker's website, rather than our default image.
Power Alarm website graphics protectionPutting a link on the image — either the one being hotlinked to or the replacement.
Power Alarm works with Hotlink Alarm To Protect Against Image TheftCausing an Alert Box to appear in the user's browser, with the message of your choice.
Hotlink Alarm toolsInserting a message of your choice directly into the thief's web page.
How to protect graphics from piracyRedirecting the browser to another URL, helping you reclaim pirated traffic.

Talk about a powerful features set!

You can continue to beam your message for as long as you'd like. Eventually the thief will discover he's been caught. He'll be motivated do remove your images and not mess with you again.

HotlinkALARM gives you a win over the crooks! They've had their way long enough. By using HotlinkALARM, you're protecting your business and raising your fist in the air and shouting, "No More!"

You'll have HotlinkALARM looking out for you around the clock. In short, you have the tool to help you win!

HotlinkALARM Protects More Than Images!
Protect Your PDFs, ZIPs, Video And Audio Files!

Our specialty is graphics substitution and redirecting traffic, of course. But our technology also enables you to guard against hotlinking JavaScript files, off-site CGI programs (like forms), and video, audio, PDF and ZIP files.

Although HotlinkALARM does not provide substitution files for these types of files, you can create your own substitution files. HotlinkALARM will notify you that someone is hotlinking.

Here's a screenshot of HotlinkALARM detecting a website hotlinking to a JavaScript file — and inserting a customized message that the website owner's visitors will see:

How to protect javascript files

It's a built-in HotlinkALARM bonus! You'll always have the ability to substitute files for JavaScript, CGI, video, audio, PDFs, ZIP and other files.

HotlinkALARM has a powerful features set. But make sure you recognize that people who might download the files from the thief's website probably don't know the thief isn't authorized to distribute your intellectual property. Exercise prudence when creating substitution files.

Let HotlinkALARM Set The Agenda, Not The Thieves!

Here's your chance to make a statement that you protect your intellectual property rights and won't let thieves siphon off the profits from your hard work and the pride you place in your business.

HotlinkALARM is:

Hotlink Alarm Protects Against Image TheftEasy to use. Complete, step-by-step directions are included in the download pack. We also have a Support Forum, a place from which you can interact with other HotlinkALARM users. You'll be up and running in no time after installing HotlinkALARM on your own server. It's a simple matter of creating a mysql database, uploading the files and following the directions. You'll be protected as soon as you complete the installation! It won't take long at all.
Hotlink Alarm Penalizes Bandwidth ThievesDependable. You'll have the added security that HotlinkALARM is looking out for you, 24/7/365.
Hotlink Alarm Protects Against Image HotlinkingFun. Imagine the look on the thief's face when he knows he's been caught. He'll be scrambling the moment he finds out.
Hotlink Alarm smart image protectionSmart. Theft is a problem on the Internet. It drains resources and causes enormous frustration. Using HotlinkALARM means you're committed to protecting your property and your bottom line.

Another HotlinkALARM Bonus!

If the built-in PowerALARM protection weren't enough, HotlinkALARM also includes "Image No Copy," a unique tool that provides extra security.

Image No Copy makes it difficult for thieves even to copy images from your website and place them on their desktop for exploitation later.

People who try to copy your images will be stunned to learn that they're not getting your graphics and instead are getting a replacement. That's right! Image No Copy employs a technology that gives image pirates an empty bag! They'll leave your site and turn their attention to less secure graphics.

Both Image No Copy and PowerALARM give you an additional edge over the thieves.

Remember, HotlinkALARM is easy to use. Step-by-step directions are included. So is access to the Support Forum. You'll be up and running in no time, and the thieves will be running for the hills when they discover that Hotlink Alarm has discovered them.

Download HotlinkALARM and its components now and start protecting your intellectual property today. You'll like the security it gives you. And you'll feel comfortable knowing that pirates no longer are picking your pocket and sending you the bill!

Ordering is quick and easy. You'll have your product only moments from now and be well on your way to declaring your hard work is not to be taken lightly by thieves.

Order HotlinkALARM today while introductory pricing still is in effect by clicking the button below. Your hotlinking protection will begin only minutes from now. Tomorrow, you can wake up and say to yourself, "Another day — another day of protection by HotlinkALARM." It's a comforting thought indeed!

Say "No!" to the pirates today with HotlinkALARM!

Sincerely,


Will Bontrager
Patrick Pretty

HotlinkALARM.com

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Installing HotlinkALARM is easy. It's a simple matter of creating a mysql database on your server, uploading the files and following the easy directions. You'll be protected as soon as you complete the installation! It won't take long at all. The "software box" is for illustration only. Hotlink ALARM is a digital download. It is not sold or available in any other form.


 
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Pirates are prowling websites at this very moment. They're harvesting content, offloading malware and scumware and conducting illegal eBay auctions  all with stolen content. It's a criminal business model, and they're hoping you'll do nothing to expose them. 

Let them know you're not about to let piracy proliferate online. Use HotlinkALARM to demonstrate that you're serious about your online business and won't let pirates and thieves succeed at your expense, while confusing your customers and diluting your brand and creating extra work for you.  

Order HotlinkALARM today. Your site will be protected upon installation, and you'll feel better knowing that the pirates can't abuse your intellectual property and profit at your expense.


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$67!


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 Installing HotlinkALARM is easy. It's a simple matter of creating a mysql database on your server, uploading the files and following the easy directions. You'll be protected as soon as you complete the installation! It won't take long at all. The "software box" is for illustration only. Hotlink ALARM is a digital download. It is not sold or available in any other form.  


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