How to monetize 2 million monthly remote loaded image views?

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This might be a bit wordy, but I want to cover some expected questions.

I own one of the oldest site clock/counter services on the web. (1996)

Over the years people have altered my Clock code to remove my backlink.

They are basically stealing my bandwidth and I finally shut down the service a year ago to new customers.

In an attempt to get the hijackers to remove the code, over the last year I have been displaying an image on their sites (I can identify them) asking to remove the code...

I can display any image I want...BUT.. it's not clickable.

It helped a little..

Now even though I'm IP Blocking a TON of traffic (using Cloudflare) I'm still getting almost 2 million views of my image per month.

A 20K image load is 1GB of transfer a day.

I've tried adding a banner with a text link overlayed but it only produced about 30 visitors a day. (users have to type url in)

The traffic on these hijacked sites are mostly adult and foreign language. And most of the sites are abandoned by their owners.

The site clock code is loaded using a php file.. example

<img src="http://domain.com/file.php">

I can not change this link.. it's on 1000's of pages.

Once again, these hijackers have cost me a fortune in bandwidth over the years, they don't manage their sites anymore, they are not contactable and I can not get my links off of their sites.

It also makes my site harder to sell because of the excessive loads.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to monetize a non-clickable image, or work some magic using htaccess to alter the php file to display a clickable banner?

Feel free to PM me as well.
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