post your htaccess (for hotlink prevention)
 

gotta nail the fuckers so heres mine :) lemme see if i forgot anyone...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*lewww.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*aisex.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*21friends.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*topsitenet.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*our2000.us.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*saob.net.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*dlktv.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*6park.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*avcool.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*mokkels.nl.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*toplist4free.com.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([a-z0-9]+\.)*usefulidiot.com.*$ [NC]

ugh...
why don't you just block everything except the considerably fewer sites you need
to be able to hotlink from you ?

My thoughts exactly. :2 cents:

you mean the couple o thousand affiliates ? :winkwink:

this is on our galleries server...

are they hotlinking your images?

if they only linking to your galleris , then you don't need that whole thing...

We all know you're big and all...
But your affiliates using your galleries or linking back to them its not
called hotlinking.
Generally hotlinking its about images or movies, in your case its most likely
images cause .htaccess doesn't fix the movie problem.
I highly doubt your affiliates need to hotlink images from your galleries.