ajpn Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 This guy philip jagow is posting Chris Blaszczyk's picture: <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/2164789">The rip off here.</a><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/1723059">The original here.</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_ogara1 Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 I'm not sure they are the same picture. The original seems larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajpn Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 <a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=370069">Seems Phil has more of Chris' photos in his folder. What is up with that????</a><br /><br /> This guy is a RIP OFF people. How much more of his stuff is stolen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajpn Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 Sure he resized it, but you're not going to tell me that is not the same picture. I know Chris's work. There is also another of his photos in Phil's folder.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/2164808"> Go here.</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_ogara1 Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Actually, I was kidding about the resizing making it a different picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajpn Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 =) Now I get it, you were being funny! Sorry, I'm just kind of in shock someone would have the audacity to do that, right here, and then post it on the critique forum as well. I mean, Chris practically lives here. This has to be some kind of a joke. (a bad joke) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_pictaker Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 This is strange timing! I took a look at the shots in question, and Philip Jagow's entire folder. A minute later I went back and the folder is gone! I went to his community page to find that he is deleted! Now that's some quick work! Good detective work Anthony. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_thalheimer Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Nice work Anthony. Gratefully the copies have been deleted. Talk about moxie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajpn Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 No kidding people, huh?! I wanted to ring his neck. I was just wondering if any of his pics were actually his own, or if he just went around the site randomly picking images to call his own. I mean what kind of moxie, is right Ken! Anyway, cheers to our moderatiors for booting his ass outa here~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toja.com Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 Hmmm.... I did not even have a chance to see this! Thanks to the admins and thanks Anthony! Good work:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajpn Posted February 28, 2004 Author Share Posted February 28, 2004 As James said above Chris, the only difference was that philip jagow shrank the image by about 50 or 100 pixels. After I posted this I went to his folder just for the heck of it, and then I saw the photo of Anna, which I remembered you said you took in a club, and at the time didn't even get her name. If I remember correctly you said something like, "I bet she'd like to see this". I was thinking, this guy has got some nerve. Talk about pathetic. Everything in his folder was probably pilfered. What can be said? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxz Posted February 28, 2004 Share Posted February 28, 2004 <P>This is an interesting topic. The best way would be to recognize ripoffs as soon as possible so that we could kick them off Photo.Net as quickly as possible to make it uninteresting to do steal someone elses work. Now, it is not possible for all of us to be as observant as Anthony so I started thinking about automatic ways of trying to find duplicate images. Of course this would not be something as simple as just checking the size or MD5-sum of the file since that is worthless, but it seems like there have been quite some research on the subject. I found <A HREF="http://research.microsoft.com/~venkie/papers/2495.ps">a paper</A> that was interesting to read. They discuss a way to compute robust hash values from an image. This hash function would be able to stand different attacks. If duplicate hash values were detected a moderator could be alterted to verify the two images. Of course this would not be able to detect all abuse. For example if someone used a part of a picture in a collage or manipulated the picture heavily this would not be detected. This is not an easy problem. Anyone else got anything on this?</P> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_p4 Posted February 29, 2004 Share Posted February 29, 2004 Alas other than recognizing the work I can't offer any suggestions for detection. The most worrying part is why the guy ripped-off the pictures, as I've heard of it happening in order to get models and using the work to show they are "reputable photographers". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajpn Posted February 29, 2004 Author Share Posted February 29, 2004 That is something I didn't think of Tony. Could be a scary thought. I'm not sure what all work he had that was stolen in his folders, or if there were others than the images that belonged to Chris. But there were at least 12 to 20 images, all of female models in the one folder I browsed. I believe he had 2 or 3 other folders as well. As Chris suggested to me it's possible he was just some young kid. Who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_p4 Posted March 5, 2004 Share Posted March 5, 2004 Hi Anthony, Well whatever the motives you have prevented that person from doing it via PN, so well spotted ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mg Posted March 6, 2004 Share Posted March 6, 2004 As if there could be another Chris Blaszczyk...:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toja.com Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 :))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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