dam hotlinkers - I need help!

[ponygirl]

Hope someone can help me...

I keep getting images hotlinked from Chatropolis, I go in and change the file name when I start to see it show up in my stats & send em to my 404 but what a pain in the ass to have to do this every few days...

I have the basic htaccess file on my root that should prevent this, right??
or is there something I should be adding to this

when I put the image url thru the hotlink checker it does not come up as an image so what exactly are they seeing when they click on it?

I'm quite pissed, have written to the site admin but I know it's a widespread problem. I can't see the actual thread cuz I'll be damned if I pay money just to get into the site to see it...


aaaaaggggghhhh! lol

any suggestions??

thanks
Ponygirl