jeffascough Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Hi Guys check this out. This is my site www.jeffascough.com This is a site by a Californian photographer John Falk www.jefalkphoto.com Basically not only has he ripped off my website code but has also usedmy pictures as his own. Be sure to check out the prices/2006section...my logo is still on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattalofs Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Hey Jeff, that URL doesn't work. Maybe he took it down already. I've been known to "borrow" some code, but using another photog's pictures? Dems fighting words. It may be somewhat innocent. He might have used an offline reader to download your site so that he can use it as a template to do his own. He shouldn't have made it public though. If it pops back up, you can track down his ISP, and tell them that he's violating copy right. The ISP has to pull it down at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_levine Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 You know what they say about "imitation" and flattery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathon Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 yeah, the site has gone, but I think this is him (after a big or research)<br> http://www.dpchallenge.com/profile.php?USER_ID=13384 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathon Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 that would be 'bit of research'. Damn cough medicine :-0<br> Jeff, would you email him, and if so what would you say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffascough Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 For those that have missed the fun and the extent to the copying, some screenshots are available on my site www.jeffascough.com/DWF/Falk/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t._duane_jones Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Jeff, While imitation may mean flattery, nothing beats a cease & desist letter from your attorney! Thankfully he pulled it before you had to pursue it in a different manner. By the way, you're wedding photography is beautiful, very inspirational. I love your website, very elegant and easy to view (although I'm not going to steal your code!). Happy shooting, Duane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_a Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Unbelievable, the way he copied everything, incluiding the site layout... It's almost like identity theft. Good luck in your endeavours, Jeff. You photography is beautiful, original and most inspirational (in a good way!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_duffy1 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Jeff, You typed in the URL wrong. The actual address is: http://www.jfalkphoto.com/ The landing page is down but the other sub-pages you have screen captures of are still up. E.g.: http://www.jfalkphoto.com/port30.htm http://www.jfalkphoto.com/port25.htm It looks like he had a spider download your entire site, added his logo and put it up as is. He has his photo number and email address on his site (http://www.jfalkphoto.com/contact.htm) but here is some more info should you and your favorite lawyer want to talk to him. http://www.whois.org/whois.cgi2?d=jfalkphoto.com I hope this helps! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melisa Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Truly disgusting! I'm happy you were able to find the site and shut him down. Can we say "La-whoooo-ser"...that's loser, BTW. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskandar_azaman___kuala_lu Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 The website is still there. You just typed it out wrongly. Try www.jfalkphoto.com or www.jfalkphoto.com/port1.htm MUAHAHAH...HE COPIED EVERYTHING...EVEN USES YOUR PHOTOS!!!! Even has a photo of him in there. From the RipOffs site "With his photographic roots very early in life, his style and deep passion for photography and specifically wedding photojournalism has gained a profound respect for nearly 20 years." "Most importantly, the 1Ds images provide a level of versatility that is simply not possible using film. ?It gives the customer the full latitude to explore each and every image in any style of color or B/W.? The reported number one reason that this particular equipment is not generally in the Wedding photography mainstream? - is simply its overwhelming cost factors; costing many times that of the professional 35mm film systems." He's claiming your Leica pictures came from his 1Ds. By the way, didn't know you're based in Derby, UK. I always thought you were american. I live in Stoke-on-Trent which is only about 40 minutes away. It's been terrible weather these past few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smittyatthebeach Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 I did a look up on his domain and he's using yahoo as his webserver. His dns is being pointed yns1.yahoo.com and yns2.yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffascough Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 I've had a couple of emails from the guy. I rang his place and told his wife to take the site down at 2am this morning. He told me that this was unprofessional...LOL Funny, I thought ripping someone's site off was considered unprofessional... He has put it down to an innocent mistake....:))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskandar_azaman___kuala_lu Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Ripping off the code is bad but using someone else's pictures as your own is just plain evil...especially in the wedding photography business. The least he could have done was put down his own pictures before uploading the site. And i can't believe he had the cheek to say that you were unprofessional. By the way, how'd you find out about his(your) website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewan_runhaar Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 His site is hosted by Geocities, just email them what happened and they will probably take his site down or at least ask him very friendly to change it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimberly c. Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Do you think it was his webmaster and not him... probably not, how can someone do that and think its ok. The site is still up, what if everyone from photo.net started emailing him, maybe he would understand the magnitude of the situation. What a freak!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_rubenstein Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Yep the guts of the site are still up, with his contact info. I couldn't resist emailing him and saying what a great site it was, but that it was too bad that it wasn't his work. Anybody here with a knot account? Maybe someone could post there about what sort of a fraud this guy is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin cook - stratford upo Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Looks like it's gone now. You'll always get look-a-likes because the Internet is like the proverbial infinite number of Monkeys one day knocking out the Complete Workes of Shakespeare, there so many sites and users. And only a finite number of web-designers and design packages. But to hardly make an effort is a bit dim! Kevin (Warwickshire UK based) and my web-site is all my own work lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewan_runhaar Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 according to the counter on his main page he has had more than 400 visitors in the last two hours ;) Guess these are his 15 minutes of fame.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffascough Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 How I found out... Basically he copied my entire site including my Sitemeter. Everytime his site got a hit, it showed up in my sitemeter stats. He got a hit from DPChallenge so I went to go and look, thinking it was my site that had been mentioned. That's how I stumbled on his site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_duffy1 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 <p>It gets even better! Look at the bottom of these pages!<br /> http://www.jfalkphoto.com/faq4.htm <br /> http://www.jfalkphoto.com/words8.htm <br /> http://www.jfalkphoto.com/dates06.htm <br /> <p>It'll be nice when Google indexes this thread so that anybody who searches for him will discover what a fraud this, um, guy is.</p> <p>David </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewan_runhaar Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 I hope he forget's to remove Jeff's name 1 or 2 times. <br><br> "Dear John Falk,<br><br> I wonder who that Jeff guy is you seem to admire so much. You mention him a lot. Will he be the one shooting our wedding?"<br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_prinos Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Jeff, I enjoyed the part in the DPChallenge thread where Mr. Falk apparently has a problem with you phoning him at 2am. If he copied web sites from his own time zone, maybe it wouldn't be such an inconvenience for him next time. Removing your stuff from would be a minute's work, and yet he's *still* got your pages & jpegs up on his server. Incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvercapture Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 He left Jeff's name but was kind enough to put his e mail address anyone??? john@jfalkphoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_baker8 Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 I've sent him a rather nasty e-mail. Lets all SPAM him! johnf@jfalkphoto.com <johnf@jfalkphoto.com> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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