Just caught some selling something from a site of mine.

Had a direct link to a photo on my site.

[jchampliaud]

This is a bit of a rant. I was just having a look at my server logs when I saw a new referrer. Had a look and low and behold here were was a direct link to some photos i.e. sealing bandwidth. I’m used to people sealing my bandwidth happens a lot to me. I just change the name of the photo and move on. But this was different, the person was trying to sell what was in the photo! And get this they listed their e-mail address. Could some really be that dumb? That’s like a robber leaving their business card. I’ve sent the person an e-mail and changed the name of the photos.
This is the first time that I know of this happening to me. Anyone else had this happen to them?

[Leosghost]

Once ( long time ago now ) had some kid on ebay here do this to me ..used one of my pics for his auction ..( where he thought he would actually provide the "item" from was interesting to speculate as it was a one off peice I had done ) ..

I duplicated the image , changed its name , changed my page link on site to the new one, on the old image that he was linking to I altered the image to one with an overlay "image volé de chez" etc ..he actually emailed me via the site to say how dare I! And he would complain to Ebay!

According to him if each image wasn't marked copyright he could do this ..the fact that every page said it's contents were copyright in 3 languages didn't count ..

I left it up until I saw his page veiw at the auction rise by 100 ( so his reputation would take a hit and then htaccessed out the folder ..I 'd forgotten do to this on this site upon "upload" ) ..

He ranted in email for maybe a week at me :)

He couldn't figure out how "his" image had said "volé" during his auction ..( stolen for our non french reading fellow members ) and my new image in page didn't :)

[nancyb]

I found that ebay is the quickest to remove an infringing page/image (hotlinked or otherwise). After I faxed them the first time all further DMCAs could be sent by email and within a day the page was gone from ebay! They also send an email telling you that the page has been removed. Congrats ebay!

It's been almost three weeks waiting for a response from G :(

[DXL]

I've seen listings on ebay where someone was hotlinking images, and the webmaster swapped them for explicit photos. Needless to say they learned their lessons.

The only problem I had like this was noticing a site showing up in the referral logs of several client sites of mine, I checked it out and it was someone I knew who created a web design site and listed all of my client sites on their portfolio (with links).

[HRoth]

Someone on ebay was hotlinking my photos and using my text verbatim to sell 17 different items. Ebay really dragged their feet about dealing with it.

Another person with their own site was hotlinking my photos and had taken my text as well. She did take it down except for one photo, which she begged me to let her leave up because her mother was sick. No, I am not kidding.

[stapel]

"Please let me keep stolen goods: my mother is sick"...?

Gotta give 'er points for originality, anyway....

Eliz.

[Symphony7]

A couple of "kids" were linking to photos on my site and using them as avatars. They were "talking" all day long and it was really adding up. Since their forum was geared around a popular graphic artist, I wrote up a personal plea in place of the photo: "We all know how important it is to protect our copyrights, blah, blah, blah." The forum owner took over at that point. Because they revered him so, I was off the hook without retaliation (thank goodness).