Trying to block some bandwidth leeches

I'm trying to block a few sites that are simply killing my bandwidth and redirect all there references to my images to another one..It doesnt even have to redirect to that image, as long as its blocking my images from loading on their site i'll be happy.

I tried searching for the code to add to .htaccess for this, but it failed every time.

Any help is appreciated.

Try this: Anti-leech using Apache's .htaccess (i assume you're running apache on linux)

thanks, will check this one out to

I use this one, and it works fine:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://babelfish.altavista.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://babelfish.altavista.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://translate.google.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://translate.google.com$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yoursite.com/.*$      [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yoursite.com$      [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|swf|mpg)$ http://www.yoursite.com/no.jpe [R,NC]

If someone tries to hotlink jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|swf|mpg they'll be given the no.jpe image instead..
(make a .jpg image and rename it to .jpe)

You can add any site/IP you want to allow to display the images to the list above.

I just use a small white image with the text "Don't steal, ask instead! www.yoursite.com ", but you could change it to anything you like, just use your imagination..