I noticed in the stats for ilovetoast that a few images were getting hit quite a lot and not by another page on ilovetoast. Turns out someone was using an image as an avatar in a forum somewhere. There is an easy fix to prevent this via your .htaccess file. Stops them nicking all your bandwidth. It can be found at Test your Hotlinking Protection with our Hotlink Checker. Stop Bandwidth Theft.. You can even have an abusive alternate image that appears instead…
Try it with
http://www.ilovetoast.com/banners/ilovetoast3.jpg (need to copy and paste it into the “check link” box)