[Leica] Is the gallery down?

[Brian Reid]

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
>> 
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>> https://chriscrawfordphoto.com
>> 
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>> 
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>> 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.
>>> 
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