You'd rather they just steal the images?

Yes, to be honest. most of the images on my site are just decoration and those are the ones which have been being remote linked. If someone's determined to use one of the images off my site without asking, there's little I can do to stop them and at least I can make them work to do it, and not steal my bandwidth.

I suspect that if they can't remote link, though, they just won't bother. Most of the remote linkers have been message board users who've probably stumbled across the images in a Google search, and they probably don't have web space of their own to host an image.

Ah. good point. I'll shut up now. :-)

If you find a way, let me know. For me it'd be like finding the Loyhargil.

there's this way but I haven't tested whether it's possible with my hosting package... Also, I don't know what will happen if the person browsing has referrer reporting disabled in their browser. I will have to try it and see...

let me know how that goes.. and whether you use option 1 or 2 that they mention.

I suppose it's time for me to learn ASP just for this purpose. It's just getting worse and worse.