Part 1: Preventing Image Hotlinking, Web Scrapers & Referral Spam

My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/technology/internet/Part-1-Preventing-Image-Hotlinking....

Snippet: "Recently, on a forum I frequent, some requests for help were posted to deal with web scraping, Referral Spam and hotlinking (bandwidth theft).

There are a few solutions to each problem and some of the problems also share a common solution."