Hot this and then see what happens?

The internet metes out its own brand of justice... and hotlinking bandits had best be careful...

As one hoster put it:

A little Photoshop here, a little filename change there, and poof! -- a Metallica fan becomes a Britney Spears fan.

Wanna link directly to an image hosted by someone else? Well, guess who controls "img123.jpg" - which may well have been a smoking cool Metallica logo when you jacked it last week? Not you, pal, not you.