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Hello

I have an important question for you today that may be impacting your
revenues.

Have you ever had someone steal an entire web site and bypass your sales
page?

Ever found a complete sales page posted on eBay where someone is using
it to make unauthorized sales?

You think, “This is WRONG!” but you don’t have a clue how to stop it.

Well, now there is! It’s called Hotlink Alarm, and it keeps people from
picking your pockets, and stealing your assets, bandwidth, and sales.

Here’s the back-story:

A recent group project I was involved with resulted in someone hijacking
our sales page and posting it in its entirety on eBay. They linked to our
graphics, and were selling for 1/3 the price through the auction. (Why
do people do that? It offers 100% commission, and this person didn’t
even earn the equivalent of two sales before we caught him.)

Have you ever tried to get eBay to address things like this? They move
at glacial speed. The one thing they DO move quickly at is when someone
is displaying CLEARLY inappropriate material on a page.

We got to thinking, “What if we could control what gets displayed when
people hijack our links…?”

As a result, a couple of brainy guys in the group came up with a very
innovative solution!

It’s called Hotlink Alarm

What it does is simply amazing.

First, it alerts you via email if it detects anybody attempting to hijack
any of your images or files. It tells you the URL of the hot-linking web
page, the type of file that’s being hot-linked, and some other useful info.

And it goes one step further — when visitors to the unauthorized
linker’s site view it, the images that they see are NOT THE ORIGINALS!
In fact, you have complete control over what they see at that point!

Should the thief attempt to correct the situation by right-clicking and
Save Image As… to their hard drive, YOU CONTROL WHAT GETS SAVED!
By default, it’s a blank image.

For download files protected by Hotlink Alarm, the files that get
downloaded are NOT THE ORIGINAL FILES either.

At this point, you’ve got ‘em by the short-hairs. Honestly, for 95% of the
people who’d try this, there’s really nothing they can do at this point other
than take the site down. A small handful of people will be smart enough to
know how to bypass it, but they’re by far the minority. People who are
smart enough to do that usually don’t waste their time ripping off other
people’s web sites.

Click the link below to see a demo of exactly how this works. It’s
really amazing!

Hotlink Alarm

-David “The Tool Wiz” Schwartz

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