How to stop hotlinking and bandwidth theft
By Arjen • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: How to, Technology, Webdesign, WeblogHotlinking, also known as remote linking and direct linking, is a technique used to show your images and documents on someone else’s website. This means they use your bandwidth to show these images. They do a simple right click on the image, select properties and copy the URL of the file. Especially when your images rank high in Google image search, people start hotlinking them without permission. It’s easy to prevent hotlinking on your website, it can be done by uploading one simple file.






