Re: My solution to image theft

**"Christopher P. Lindsey" t*@spamfodder.com**

> I've just noticed this information on preventing robots/spiders from 
> the Google Image Search and other search engines indexing the images 
> on your site. It comes from the bulletin of the American Society of 
> Media Photographers.
> 
> Apparently, you can place a very specific text file in your site's 
> root directory that tells the spiders not to look at certain folders. 
> You can find all the details at 
> http://www.asmp.org/newsandevents/news/newslines.html (scroll down to 
> the end).

The page at

   http://images.google.com/remove.html#images

also offers some other tips.  For example, the ASMP instructions will block 
all search engines.  But if you only want to block Google images, your
robots.txt file could read

   User-agent: Googlebot-Image
   Disallow: /

Personally, I'm not too concerned.  Under the new scheme (with the split
up images on hort.net) any pics that images.google.com displays will
just be one small portion of the original photo.  If that's not good
enough for folks, well, too bad.  :)

Chris
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