Re: Other Reasons to disable these features...

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[quote="Obewanz"]I don't know about you guys, but our product catalog has well over 10,000 images that are prepared for the most part internally. (this costs us LOTS of Moolah!) 
Other sites, or worse yet our competitors, actually LINK to the images on our servers. If they can't see where the image was retrieved from and can't simply do a right-click/save picture, it takes just a bit more work on their part to use our images (without permission of course) let alone actually STEAL our BANDWIDTH by linking to product pictures, etc. (again without permission). :cry: 

Since changing to osCommerce, I don't have a very good solution for this yet, but I figure whenever I do get one - the links that [i]were[/i] made without permission will get broken and we'll get some of our bandwidth back...  :shock:

Regards,
Obewanz

PS: There's always more than one way to look at a rat, even if it is from the bottom up!  :P[/quote]

Use mod_rewrite to prevent them from linking to your images. Heck, you can do it so only you can link to your images quite easily.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/910