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<p>I've been busy working and I'm somewhat surprised to see no resolve to this mess. I do not care and am not interested in board politics or Coverjock's motives for posting their Serenity Threads on a booksellers Forum. My guess is they randomly found PN and have used the Search feature here to find their "Themes."<br>

<br />My only concern was the hotlinking to thousands of copyrighted Photographs from the Photo.net community. I've catalogued and credited literally millions of submissions of photographs while in the publishing industry. In all those years I've never seen such a blatant disregard to the legal rights of Photographers ever. After trying multiple times to inform Coverjock of this transgression on their threads I finally contacted the Photographers directly through this Forum.</p>

<p>I have no idea why the Moderators of the Amazon's Forums have allowed those photographs to remain visible. Especially since there is a very valid DMCA as proof of a violation of rights. I also don't know why the threads mentioning the Moderator's involvement with Coverjock and the multiple Serenity threads have been deleted. I do acknowledge that the Seller Forums are of minimal concern to Amazon.com in general.</p>

<p>I sincerely hope this gets resolved soon with the minimum of damage. Photo.net always has a been a fine site and I'm pleased to be a member again, but sure wish it hadn't been under these circumstances.<br>

OOPS, just saw your administrator's note. Thank goodness.</p>

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<p>Yes, it does help to report them. Every Report is supposedly read by the Moderators. Quite often though it takes numerous reports for the posts or threads to be deleted. <br>

If would be especially helpful if there was a statement issued from PN in a Post.<br>

That would end the crazy questioning of whether PN is actually instigating these threads in order to build viewers to the PN website for advertising purposes.</p>

<p>Aaargh... "Coverjock" has started up again posting more hotlinks of images from Photo.net. It would be appreciated if someone from here posted a response from Photo.net against the hotlinking. To be honest, I run the risk of being reported myself if I post anymore warnings.</p>

<p>If anyone signs into the Forums, there is also a REPORT link on each post that goes to our Moderators. When enough people complain the thread is removed and the Poster is banned from using the Amazon Forums. Most of us use the name associated with our Selling account there, but this Coverjock is using an undercover Posting name only that is not connected to their Store.</p>

<p>Would you like a link to the actual thread in the Soapbox Forum? I wasn't sure if it's alright to post links in the Photo.net Forums. I just realized I should add that Amazon.com has separate Forums for Buyers and Sellers. These wierd Serentity threads are posted on the Soapbox in the Amazon Seller Community.</p>

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<li>I'm a bookseller on Amazon.com and we have Seller Forums similar to the ones here. Primarily we discuss books, selling and shipping concerns along with an Off Topic Soapbox. Recently we've had a odd new Poster, "Coverjock", who has begun a series of what they call "Serenity Threads" where they post hundreds of hotlinked Photo.net images. Credits are never given. The first thread started was deleted by the Moderators because it was so overloaded with Photo.net images it was slowing our Forum down. Before the thread was deleted Coverjock encouraged everyone to copy these images.</li>

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<li>I was a Member here on Photo.net back in the nineties when I was publishing books for the beauty industry. Photo.net sure has changed with the times but I'm pretty sure this practice of hotlinking is still verboten. So I, along with many others, have asked to them stop linking to copyrighted original photographs. I've even posted the Photo.net Terms of Use and DMCA to no avail. Coverjock implies, but has shown no proof, they have permission from Photo.net. and all the Photographers here.</li>

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<li>Anyone can view and post in the Amazon Seller Forums if you would like to see for yourself. You'll see quite a few parodies on these disruptive image threads, but the latest one started by "Coverjock" featuring exclusively Photo.net images is called "SERENITY BRAND NEW! EYE CANDY FOR THE SOULS - PART 2". I'd be happy to give you the proper link to our Forums if that is allowed. Thanks in advance for the opinions of Photo.net users. </li>

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