Stopping direct links

On one of my sites, wiredcd.itallconnects.com, I'm offering the wiredCD for download. It's pretty bandwidth intensive, so I enabled hotlink protection from cpanel.

When a user in windows clicks one of the links, it automatically starts playing in WMP. If I don't allow direct requests, it breaks this functionality so I do allow direct requests.

Now I see a site is offering a playlist to my files, so the playlist is downloaded from their site and then the user's mp3 player makes a direct request to my site and starts downloading/playing. The users don't even know they're eating up my bandwidth, and one person has already used about 2.5 times the size of the whole CD.

Is there a way I can prevent this from happening while not interfering with people from playing the songs directly from my site?

Thanks,

Jason

 

 

 

 

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