It sounds like you are taking the right steps, unfortunately there isn't much you can do to completely prevent this so tagging it is a good idea. Another thing you may want to consider is a modrewrite in your .htaccess if you want to prevent outside linking to your images. There's lots of great info on how to do this in google by doing a simple search for htaccess prevent link
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