rjwmotor - 2:47 am on Jul 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

I've recently enabled hotlink protection on one of sites due to people using them on "therespace". Google has alot of my images in there index and I'd like to keep them there. I do get quite a few referrals from them. Is using hotlink protection bad in terms of G images? Will this erase all the exisiting pics in G?