Simple anti leech?

[Abominator]

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to go about making a simple anti leech "download.php" for my site MegaMan Matrix (www.megaman.co.uk)

I run a couple of shoutcast stations and wish to make the mp3s that the station uses downloadable, but since I have thousands of tracks (all are totally legal, FYI) I don't want any competition stealing my bandwidth.

All the mp3s are stored in the directory /root/media/ on my server (might seem odd, but it makes cron stuff related to the shoutcast stations a lot simpler)

I also plan on making only registered users of my forum be able to download the tunes if necessary, but that's not important now, I just want to get some groundwork done. (my chat is already limited to board users with 50 or more posts, so I'll be trying to combine the code i used there with whatever code I might get for the anti-leech)

Anyway, I tried "Anti Leech v1.1a" from http://www.woxx.co.uk/ which first seemed like it would be ideal for my needs, except that it doesnt work at all! (see my post on their forum about that here: http://www.woxx.co.uk/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=10 - no response 🙁)

So, I was hoping that someone could tell me how to go about making a page that would refer a URL like www.megaman.co.uk/download.php?file=whatever.mp3 to the file /root/media/whatever.mp3

I'll probably be using the same (or similar) system for avi and zip files at a later date.

I liked the idea of that WOXX script being able to limit the speed of downloads too, but that's not really necessary, I guess (hopefully the 50 post limit thing will stop my bw getting crippled anyway)

Anyway, I apologise for being so long winded about all this, and I apologise if this should have been in Coding rather than Newbies, but I am a total n00b when it comes to stuff like this, so I thought it'd be more likely to be put in layman's terms if I posted here.

[devinemke]

i assume that /root/media/ is a non-public directory? if so something like this would work.

<?php
$path = '/root/media/' . $_GET['file'];
if (file_exists($path) && is_file($path))
{
	header('Content-Type: audio/mpeg');
	header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($path));
	header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $_GET['file'] . '"');
	readfile($path);	
}
else
{
	echo 'file not found';
}

exit();
?>

[Abominator]

Thanks a lot, man!

This, combined with a decent htaccess file and the 50-posts-needed code will make my media 100% secure!

You have my eternal gratitude.