Bandwidth theft ("hotlinking") is when someone else makes their website using your space, images, sounds, videos, etc.
This theft occurs when they link directly to your objects (as opposed to your pages). You end up paying for the storage space and the bandwidth to serve them. With the substantial cost of bandwidth, bandwidth theft is becoming increasingly more frequent ... and more expensive.
With the use of our HotLink Protection tool, instead of stealing your precious bandwidth, they will be turned into revenue generators! RewriteCond is a feature of "htaccess" that allows you to control access to your valuable web resources - you get to restrict access to your files to whatever URLs you wish.