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Needed some suggestions :D
Hey Guys,
I'm planning on starting a backup service like DropBox,** like dropbox, not dropbox**
Anyway, getting back to the question :
1. How do I prevent users from publicly hotlinking the data ? any way to prevent Hotlinking ?
The reason being that I dont want ton's of DMCA violating data stored on the service.. limiting the user to upload/download only his/her files will somewhat fix the issue of DMCA's I feel.
any suggestions ?
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I assume you're going to have some kind of web interface that the users can use to access the files? In that case, use HTTP digest access authentication. Basically, the user can log in via your website, and they're granted access to their specific directory on the server.
Yup, its got a web interface
I'm just a bit worried about "launching it" as I know that people will upload copyrighted stuff and share which makes it even worse for me !
I don't really get the idea of hot-linking prevention. Dropbox for example allows hot linking for items in Public folder. From what you said, I think your service should be more like Mediafire or Megaupload.
Regarding hotlinking prevention, nginx can check for invalid referer and return 403
As long as you properly handle DMCA complaints, you shouldn't have a problem.
@haphan : The thing is I don't want to start something like Mediafire or Megaupload, something more like DropBox
@NickM : Yup, I'll have to think again about starting this service as i'm the only guy who'll be running it, i'll need 2 or 3 more people to help with support and dealing with DMCA's