Getty Images Bot?

[premierhosting]

Hi Guys,

How would one go about blocking the nefarious Getty Images bot server-wide with ASL? Anyone already done it?

[mikeshinn]

Probably easy to do, got an access_log example?

[premierhosting]

http://www.picscout.com/

More info here, including IP's:
http://williamfaulkner.co.uk/2007/09/pi ... tockphoto/

More here:
http://gossamerwebdesign.com/?p=411

User agent is reported to be:
picscout

I can't find any current logs with their string, they were crawling and eating resources on a server that I have shut down, so I figure it's just a matter of time before they hit this one.

[mikeshinn]

You may want to take a look at bot-trap for misbehaving bots:

http://danielwebb.us/software/bot-trap/