Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/12/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well Brian, it is Happy Chaosday today and, unfortunately for all of us, probably for the remainder of our lives. That downloading by multiple bots is what we, over here anyway, call a pain in the hole, but not really surprising, as any comforting notion of privacy these days vanishes faster than morning frost in the Sahara. What new horrors await us in 2026? Thanks for trying to defend our honour and our images against overwhelming odds. Have a happy christmas and a prosperous new year - and the same goes for all Luggers out there. Douglas Blind busy, but sadly not in the photographic area at the moment. On 25/12/2025 05:44, Brian Reid wrote: > Every time I turn the gallery server on again, it immediately got > flooded with AI bots stealing images. > So I have turned it off for the night. It is currently 21:45 > California time, so it?s going to stay off until my morning. Maybe the > pirates will turn their attention elsewhere, and maybe they won?t. The > torrent that arrived most recently was mostly from Russia. > > On 2025-12-24 15:32, Brian Reid wrote: >> There are hundreds of different IPs in use, so blocking them is futile. >> I turned off the server. We shall see if it goes away. I suspect it >> will be stubborn. >> >> >> On 2025-12-24 09:56, Christopher Crawford via LUG wrote: >>> Why don?t you block the IP that the bot is coming from, and if not >>> possible, shut the server down until it goes away, instead of letting >>> it steal LUG members? photos? >>> >>> Christopher Crawford >>> Fort Wayne, Indiana >>> >>> My Portfolio >>> https://chriscrawfordphoto.com >>> >>> Learn From Me >>> https://crawfordphotoschool.com >>> >>> Watchmaker Chris >>> https://watchmakerchris.com >>> >>>> On Dec 24, 2025, at 12:51?PM, Brian Reid >>>> <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote: >>>> >>>> Today again the gallery has a heavy load. Today there is an AI bot >>>> in Brazil that is downloading every image, but it is being nicer >>>> than was yesterday?s Chinese download, and is using only 20 >>>> parallel streams. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________