I do have awstats, but its pretty useless for that sort of thing. Circa 2 million hits per week on one hotlinked image would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. You'd be surprised if you counted up just how many pages I do have. The main site is and always has been much busier than the forum.
Also say for example
this image. Its used on help forums all over the place to show people what a master socket looks like. I dont really mind that, its the websites that take whole pages and copyright it as their own.
Those that I go after usually take a whole page (or pages as has been the case in the past or more than one occasion) and host the images as their own.
Hence why I use copyscape.
There's been at least 4 small yet at the time, fairly well known ISPs (such as Newnet/Vispa/Enta resellers) who have taken several pages of content and listed them as their own help files. There's also been 2 router manufacturers who used the Interleaving page as their own (complete with images).
that is to display full copywrite terms and conditions,
Each and every page displays the copyright notice (bottom left) and that links direct to all the correct legal jargon about
copyright and intellectual property rights which spells everything out very clearly.
The worst offenders are usually small one/two men business doing IT repairs and broadband etc.
Some try to ignore the notification thinking I wont take the next step, but I do, and theres been a couple of whole sites which have totally been pulled or blacklisted by google. So warning if anyone is using it commercially then I will go after them.
Most who gave permission actually thanked me for asking
Use it with permission with proper links and I will probably agree. Theres lots and lots of sites where Ive given free permission to use content. Im not in it to make money, but Im not going to stand by whilst commercial sites make a profit from my content and pretend its their own.
If you were say an average bod and you saw my content on say TP-links webpages and then saw the same content on mine. Who would you think had been doing the copying? Google automatically assumes the big corporate is the original author and will down rank me. Thats why I have to protect it.