Prevent image linking / bandwidth theft?

From: Rick [Kitty5] (rick_at_kitty5.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:39:27 +0000

What is the best way to prevent someone from hot linking to images, and
therefore stealing bandwidth?

I would rather avoid anything that uses mysql blobs at the moment. 

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