[Leica] Is the gallery down?

[Don Dory]

Thank you for shouldering the yearbook once again


Don
don.dory at gmail.com

On Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 10:33 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:

> I’ve turned it back on. The thieves seem to have gone somewhere else.
>
> Merry Christmas to everyone, and don’t forget to submit to the yearbook.
>
> http://leica-users.org/yearbook/submitting.html
>
> 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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