HuskyPup - 8:16 pm on Dec 19, 2012 (gmt 0)

If anyone has solved this issue I'd love to hear it.

I'm not too sure what you're asking for! This is what I use and it cured all my hotlinking problems meanwhile it still allows Google, Bing and Yahoo access.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^google\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^bing\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^yahoo\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ /images/hotlink.gif [L]

One specific image I have went from 30,000 hotlinked requests a day to zero overnight:-)