This one’s more technical than most of these articles…

Browsing through the logs of our web server, I discovered that a couple of photos on one of the web sites we host were being linked to from outside the site. The web site is music-related, and it turned out that there were the three sites that were linking to it were all Bit Torrent sites… particularly rude to steal bandwidth from the host of the composer at the same time as trading their music illegally.

With a bit of research, I found a helpful resource on how to prevent this in Apache 2.
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