I just wonder why somebody gets so uppity and says IN VERY BIG LETTERS:
"Please do not hotlink my images! URL's were created for a reason..."
I have been running websites for some ten years now and have not the slightest problem if someone links directly to one of my images. It seems an eminently sensible thing to do as it avoids the user wasting a lot of time going through garbage on the way to get to the important bit that really matters.
This "don't hotlink" business before and the wittering on about bandwidth, etc, crops up occasionally. It always strikes me a case of self-importance.
Jack Harrison