How to stop a bandwidth thief
 

Someone is stealing my bandwidth by hotlinking an image -

first of all how can i stop someone from doing that?
secondly how can i make the image load on their page saying 'i'm a filthy fucking thief"

thanks

cant help ya. just here for the sig spot.

Googles a bitch isn't it?:1orglaugh

nm, google is my friend.

there are some scripts to stop hotlinking, just do a quick search on google..

edit, if your running cpanel, then it has the function already in the admin area

you use htaccess tools

1) htaccess
2) htaccess + mod_rewrite

Change the pics into a banner for your site, you get some free adverts until they find out

change picture but keep it same file name

hopefully your using apache, in which case, google "htaccess rewrite hotlink" and enjoy.

http://www.htmlbasix.com/disablehotlinking.shtml

Are you using a control panel? If so, you can usually do hotlinking protection through that. Ask your host, they might be able to help too.

Good luck!

Your host should be able to stop this for you. As for changing the image, if you know what image they are hot linking then just make a new image and reupload using the same file name and your fuck off image will appear instead ;)