Hotlinking is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located.
It is always recommended to enable hotlinking of images, else others use just links to your site to load their web-pages, thereby stealing your bandwidth. Do you want that to happen?
If not, copy-paste the below code to your websites .htaccess file.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*\.(bmp|tif|gif|jpg|jpeg|jpe|png)$ – [F]
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11:42 am
Good posting it helped me alot.