Yup. Fastreplies gave the right answer. Now let's step back a moment.
A "hotlinked" image has code that looks like this
<img src="http://www.whatever.com/somefile.jpg" alt="Text goes here">
A hyperlink or backlink or whatever, that helps with SEO and brings traffic, looks like this
<a href="http://www.whatever.com">Text or image here</a>
So a good hotlinked image looks like this
<a href="http://www.whatever.com"><img src="
http://www.whatever.com/somefile.jpg" alt="Text goes here"></a>
Without that hyperlink ( a tag with href attribute), the image is only served from your web site, using up your bandwidth and adding load to your server, but bringing to real benefit. You say they're not giving you a link and ask if it's possible to get backlinks through hotlinked images. The answer is yes, but not the way it sounds like this has been implemented.
What you should do about it is a personal choice. One of the fellows on the moderator team is really the expert image guy around here - I'll send him a PM asking for his input in this thread. But hopefully I've helped clear up some of the how things work generally, and fastreplies has given you valuable technical information on how to solve your problem, should you decide to go down that route.
Last edited by Learning Newbie; 10-19-2007 at 03:19 PM..
Reason: Make the html stand out more for clarity's sake
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