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I have some rewrite rules to detect it and serve up a small GIF:

http://www.glitchwrks.com/images/general/hotlink.gif

Mostly I had issues with folks hotlinking some of my higher resolution images in their own site/blog/forum posts and claiming it was their work. I set up the rewrite rules after noticing a big spike in bandwidth utilization and seeing a bunch of requests in the logs. Referrer took me back to the offending pieces.

It was suggested to use some sort of shock image instead, now that would be antisocial!




This is 1999 type stuff.


Yep, it was used a lot when people would hotlink to their MySpace profile.

still super effective.




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