matrix_jan - 10:50 pm on Jan 28, 2013 (gmt 0)

BTW - users coming from Bing search results that carry that referrer will see your site without images. I doubt this is what you want.

Nope, the landing page is referred by bing not the images.

I haven't blocked bots, they don't eat my bandwidth, hotlinking does. I don't see a reason for blocking bots.

@zeus

If you don't want google to load your images from your servers modify your code to:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} bing.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .google. [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]