Hello all...

My friend has a music mix website which keeps getting hit with a load of bot downloaders (that download the entire content of the site) so currently he's shipping 1000gb a month of BANDWIDTH & fears that it won't be LONG before his hosting company catch wind & start trying to make him stop.

What he has implemented is for people to enter a username & password in order to download a mix.

Here's the site if you would like to see an example:

http://www.deephousesounds.net//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=28

His question is, do you think it's a good idea & also if there is a better alternative?

Thanks for your time & any advice...a bot could use a membership to do the same thing anyways, the only real method of stopping a bot is to use a generated image, i have a php script around to do just that .. ILL post it when i find itGreat thanks DIABLO!Firstly, thanks to neljan for posting this for me, on his suggestion I've signed up myself.

Secondly Diablo thanks for offering the script, I'm not sure CAPTCHA is going to be the best way for me to stop the bots, they've managed to break Google and MSN Captcha auth now and also I want to be able to stream the mixes and at the moment I use M3U files which as you probably know is just a link to an mp3 file, what I am thinking of doing is password protecting the directory so that when anyone clicks on the link they have to enter a user name and password before being able to play or download. Do you think that will stop CASUAL bot downloaders?

Thanks all
Ed