You go through your web statistics and find a website that has not only stolen your images, but in fact simply linked right to them, on your server.
The problem with this is not just the theft of your images, but it runs up your bandwidth as well. This is known as "Leeching".
You can easily block the stealing of your bandwidth by blocking the links to files and images on your domain by others. Place the following simple code in your .htaccess file.
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?geosourcecode.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|swf|flv|png)$ - [F,NC]
