14 Jul
2010
14 Jul
'10
3:57 p.m.
The better alternatives are to either watermark all your thumbnails (ie: ImageCache Actions) and serve them directly, or to use a CDN that offers token based authentication, like VoxCAST.
Or upgrade to D7, as can handle simultaneous private and public files. You have imagecache in core as well. D7 beta is "any day now"