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[Ben Chase]

That extra bandwidth usually isn't much but I ask them to stop based on the principal of the matter, it's a bad practice. And if the person is a jerk, you can simple rename your original image, change the html on your page, and substitute something very inappropriate with the same name as your hijacked image

I've seen some very amusing examples of this happening - the best probably was a nice .gif of a large middle finger

That would probably catch someone's attention!

[Shoot The Moon]

Hotlinking is a massive problem unfortunately. We used to have a lot of sample images of our food photography on our site, but there was so much hotlinking to them that we had to completely remove them. We couldn't even afford the bandwidth for replacement images.

[erie patsellis]

I second the(third, fourth?) the reccomendation for AWSTATS. if you have the bandwidth, or your site isn't terribly traffic intensive, you can set up a PC with SME server, which is probably about the easiest server system to manage, and you get a a full firewall/router/mail server to boot.


erie