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We have just released a new anti hotlinking system, that seems to be working really well. Jim and I are really pleased with how the system works so far its just the matter of time before its mastered.

Here is the idea. We have had many websites linking our Aeonity Games Flash Files to there website. No, not just a link from there website to ours...they were actually emedding our files and claiming it as there own.

Well, Jim spent the later part of the day creating an Anti Leech Code for our swf files, and I created some flash as a replacement to the game.

Here is how it works. When a visitor goes to there website, (before today) they would be able to play the game freely without any problems. Great for that website, bad for Aeonity. (Because of the stealing of bandwidth) But now with this new system, we created a flash movie that states:

Aeonity Games
Content Stolen From Aeonity.com

The a popup windo of Aeonity.com is shown, and if the visitor click the flash, they are sent to Aeonity Games. We understand that many people hate popups, but you know whats worse? People stealing your files, and hotlinking it to their website...costing aeonity bandwidth, server speeds, and a headache.

Examples of websites stealing from Aeonity

http://ar.agame.com/es/agames/0/7/000144.html

(Copy a website from above and place it in your address bar to see an example of our Anti Leech System)

Perhaps other webmasters will think twice before linking our files to there websites.

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