Hotlinking is the fine art of stealing bandwidth from unsuspecting bloggers by linking content and media (images mostly) directly. This is a common practice among bandwidth thieves that it’s probably happening to you and you don’t even know it!
Well, if you use WordPress there’s a plugin to protect you! You can download WordPress Automatic Image Hotlink Protection and be safe and sound.
Sweet. Done and done.
Erik Scottberg says
Downloading it now. Thanks!
Geek for Him says
Can’t this be accomplished in a less intrusive way using the .htaccess file? I thought I read up on that one day.
John Saddington says
sure, but not everyone knows how to do that.
D says
That looks promising! A good fix for those pesky bandwith thieves! It is amazing/surprising how often this image theft happens.