Hotlinking, which is oftentimes labeled bandwidth theft also, describes linking to images that are on another website. Simply, if you have a site with some images on it, another individual could also create a website and as opposed to using their own images, they can put links directly to your images. Even though this may not be such a serious problem if you have a smaller personal site, it will be something very serious if the images are copyrighted, because somebody may be trying to copy your Internet site and cheat people. If your hosting package deal has a limited monthly bandwidth quota, chances are you'll exhaust your resources without getting real website visitors, simply because the traffic shall be consumed by the other Internet site. This is the reason why you need to think about protecting your content from being hotlinked - not simply images, but also documents, since in rare occasions other types of files are linked also.
