So I was going through my Apache logs for the first time in a very long time. Its just not been a high priority for me. But what I did notice is that two of my blogs, especially stevesgeekspeak.com, have had their bandwidth stolen quite significantly by a few Russian forum websites hotlinking to images on them. Here’s a bit of a story and tutorial about how I dealt with the issue using mod_rewrite rules in my .htaccess files.