# Protecting SWF from Hotlinking or Rehosting

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/protecting-swf-from-hotlinking-or-rehosting/151778
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 18, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/protecting-swf-from-hotlinking-or-rehosting/151778 "2005-06-18T00:30:29Z")
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### Author: ![Alpha\_eX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Alpha\_eX](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alpha_eX)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/protecting-swf-from-hotlinking-or-rehosting/151778/1 "2005-06-18T00:30:29Z")

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I’ve made a game in flash that I want to upload onto my site but I don’t want it to be able to get hotlinked to or hosted from/on another site.

What would be a good way to prevent this?

I first thought of getting a varible from a text file and using an IF function on load to check if that var was loaded but that would only prevent Hosting.

I then tried putting the var in the html code for the swf but that don’t seem to work so well, when I refresh the page the movie randomly seems to play normally or goto my “this is stolen” screen.

Can anyone help or suggest something?

Thanks in advance to those that help.