ALERT: Copyrights are being violated

Vincent, When I first came to this site, I was still working at a paper while I built up stock

and my reputation. Now my reputation is very well known where I am at and I do not

under any circumstances want it related to an image theft. This alone looks unprofessional

on my part.

 

I get very little business inroads from being on here as over 90% of my work is not publicly visible. The latter makes it easy to engage in exclusive rights purchases as the images are

truly not up for grabs. Most on here will be fine in keeping there work up, I am pretty

much leaning towards re-loading it as really small or just nixing most of it and calling it

good.

 

Photo.net is a great place, but Tony Stone it is not, so I am going to be fine if I have only a

handful of images on here..

 

You should never fault anyone for taking the measures they feel that are needed to

protect work, ever.

Thanks for the reply Daniel. As I said above:

 

"I respect anybody's rights to do what they want if they find their images have been

illegally used. But in my opinion, some of you folks are flat out Over-Reacting here. These

are very small J-pegs, they have our name credit on the photos that I have seen and you

can leave a comment on the photos if you wish. Folks, you can steal images right off of

Corbiss, Getty, Pacific Stock etc websites right now, if you wish. Yet, amazingly these

largest of stock companies today still post publicly and are still rolling in the cash. Go

after these folks the best way you can. But to threaten removal altogether is only hurting

yourselves in the end."

 

 

So then, like stated above, I respect your right to do whatever you want as well as

everybody else here. Your images are not my images. If you sincerely believe you need to

remove your entire portfolio because one website is using them without authorization,

then my opinion is that this would be an over-reaction. (Though I believe you mentioned

yours have not been used at this time).

 

 

Either way, I certainly respect your right to disagree with my opinion and do what you

want... of course. I have simply shared just why I believe entire removal is unnecessary and

an over-reaction under these specific circumstances.

 

I too have experience. And getting other educated viewpoints, even if disagreeing with

yours, is usually a good thing.

 

Have a good one Daniel. You do have some nice work btw. Would be a bit of a shame,

IMO, to see it all taken down. But that's not my call to make. I can just somewhat disagree.

As I have already done. Take care.

 

All the best,

 

Vince

I sell picture on my website (www.printroom.com/pro/e2photo) and I have tried all common

ways to lift the pictures from the site and have not be able to do so. Based on that

experience there seems to be technology available that would make thief of images more

difficult and I wonder whether PN would be willing to evoke such technologies.

 

If someone can lift an image from that site, I would great appreciate knowing that it is

possible. Steven

Steven - it was very easy to get this image from your site ... with a screen capture. And I'm not very good with computers...<div></div>