mike_ireland1 Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 i am very saddend by the fact i cant find all my old pictures fromphototalk.net before this big change. please respond on to whathappend to the site! thankyou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Well, it might be because this site was never phototalk.net. That sounds like another site. But welcome to photo.net! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_ireland1 Posted September 10, 2005 Author Share Posted September 10, 2005 well there was a phototalk.net, and when i type in the url www.phototalk.net it redirects me here, but ohh well this site seems nice so i think i will stay, just sad because i had a really good portfolio mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 I don't know why it points to photo.net but here's the contact info for phototalk.net. The administrative contact phone number is obviously bogus. <p> <pre> phototalk.net Registrant: Somara Sem Somara Sem 1234 Mission Blvd. San Francisco, CA US 94103 Registrar: NameSecure.com Domain: PHOTOTALK.NET Created on 08-27-2002 Expires on 08-27-2006 Administrative Contact: Somara Sem Phone: 415-555-1212 E-mail: *****@phototalk.net Technical Contact: Namesecure Inc. Phone: 570-708-8418 </pre> <p> You can see snapshots of the phototalk.net site on the WayBack Machine at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://phototalk.net"> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://phototalk.net</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 <i>The administrative contact phone number is obviously bogus.</i><p> The address is also. There is no Mission Blvd in San Francisco (and note the 1234), just a Mission Street. That site was run by someone who obviously didn't want to be found. Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael R Freeman Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 See here for your answer: http://www.popphoto.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=41831 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 I think putting bogus into in your registration for a website can result in you losing the site. Anonymous site registration isn't allowed under the ICANN rules (though you can register through an agent if you want anonymity and some registrats offer that service). The "owner" or phototalk.net might well want to put accurate info in the registration fields or he may find himself in trouble with ICANN, who could, under their domain name arbitration process, take back the domain name and allow someone else to register it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 People should be careful about posting photos to a site with bogus information. It could be very difficult to track them down if they mis-used the photos. Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_ireland1 Posted September 11, 2005 Author Share Posted September 11, 2005 they weren't bogus, they had a lot of people that were loyal to the site and the owners were very interactive as well, but i guess from that previous post that it will be back soon, thank you guys for the responses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 The information on the domain registration is bogus. If anything happens to your images, you have no way of definitively tracking them down. Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_craver Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 Mike, Thanks for posting this because I thought I might be going crazy. I've been trying to get on PhotoTalk for the past week but with no luck. Looks like the URL is no longer directing traffic here so hopefully PhotoTalk will be up again soon. eikon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtghm_gtghm Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 It's still linking to this site... Good for these guys but I would love to get back to the origional site... "g" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_henderson Posted September 16, 2005 Share Posted September 16, 2005 I'm glad I finally got the idea to do a search for phototalk.net here at photo.net. I have images posted over at phototalk myself and have been going crazy wondering why the heck I can't log onto the site. I have now found my answer and look forward to the site being operational again soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_henderson Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Still no phototalk.net? Anybody with any new info? It's Oct. 28th and it's been quite some time since this site has been gone. Maybe gone forever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Bogus phone number, bogus address, offline for almost two months, I'd suggest not holding your breath. Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_henderson Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 I frequented the site for 2 years or so. That's a rather elaborate scam on someone's part to keep the site up and running for at least that long. Not sure when the site first appeared on the net. Wonder how many people's images have been ripped off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_tully Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 what on earth are you talking about , someone ripping off images? anybody anywhere can right click and take an image posted anywhere. you certainly don't need to run a website for several years to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dana_gartenlaub Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 In fact, any time you post an image on the Web it is vulnerable to being copied. There are scripts that prevent downloading but advanced users can get around them. The best protection is to put your ? information on the image. Try a fat font with bevel/emboss, and lower the opacity. You'll have what appears to be a watermark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_stocum1 Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 That's it, start a bogus photo site, run it at your own expense and eventually voluntary donations for 3 years, then you can pirate thousands of unusable, unmarketable lo-res images! What a concept! The pay off must have been microscopic. I was a moderator at phototalk.net, I have no answers and am unable to communicate with the founder/owner of PT. What ever the reasons its down, oh well. It was fun, educational and a great experience while it lasted. Sure some answers would be swell, but at the end of the day, it was just a web site and nothing lasts forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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