stament from thetvdb.com - referer not needed anymore

[lordy]

For anyone that scrapes this site:

http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?...t=10#p7285

"Think I fixed it on the server until the image mirror gets fixed. For people wondering, we use referrers so that any requests that don't come from our server get redirected to the mirror. There were issues with the mirror and as a result the images weren't getting delivered correctly. We're obviously not trying to prevent leeching, since 99% of all of our users get access via "leeching". If people continue to have issues, let me know. If you've done referrer spoofing, DNS changes (hosts file), etc on your system I won't bother helping until you roll back those changes since I don't want to troubleshoot with those things involved."

Personally I have changed all my fetches for all sites to use the sites own domain as the referer, and I'll probably leave it like that unless there are further problems.