[Leica] Is the gallery down?

[Brian Reid]

I’ve turned it back on. The thieves seem to have gone somewhere else.

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On 2025-12-24 21:44, 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.
>>>> 
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