Cheeky or what

[jimmy]

Whilst scouring the web for images from the Japan pre-worlds race, I came across a Japanese website linking to MY photos from the euros - but on this greek website!

http://www.rcingreece.com/


What a good idea to have a gallery of racing images from around the world... but... They have basically downloaded hundreds of my photos and put them in their own gallery - I wasnt asked, Im not credited or linked-to in any way. Loads of people link to my photos from my website and stuff, but this is the first wholesale ripping of my site that Ive found.
Theres no point me taking photos at all if I dont even get visitors to my site to view them!

If anyone speaks greek can they say, no thanks ? :p This isn't how you make a website, this is "illegal".

[DCM]

I can't even get the site to load....

[jimmy]

heres a direct link to their gallery

http://www.rcingreece.com/gallery/

I have no idea if they took any photos at all, I would assume not. Just scoured the web and nicked various photo collections from big races.

here is the japanese site with my photo and their link.. wtf ! :rolleyes:

http://www.kimihiko-yano.net/weblog/cgi-bin/archives/003069.html



I've emailed them anyway, see if they appologise and take them down. I told them they never asked, but hey, I never would let them do that even if they paid me.

[bigred5765]

Whilst scouring the web for images from the Japan pre-worlds race, I came across a Japanese website linking to MY photos from the euros - but on this greek website!

http://www.rcingreece.com/


What a good idea to have a gallery of racing images from around the world... but... They have basically downloaded hundreds of my photos and put them in their own gallery - I wasnt asked, Im not credited or linked-to in any way. Loads of people link to my photos from my website and stuff, but this is the first wholesale ripping of my site that Ive found.
Theres no point me taking photos at all if I dont even get visitors to my site to view them!

If anyone speaks greek can they say, no thanks ? :p This isn't how you make a website, this is "illegal".


contact him through his email on his page i would leave a link to this page

[BenG]

try

Αποτελέσματα αναζήτησης για 'no thanks ? This isnt how you make a website, this is "illegal".': Δεν βρέθηκαν λέξεις.

the bit in bold wont translate

[jimmy]

haha, google translate? I wonder if that will come out something like "the ham sandwich curtails the use of formula images impressive no?"

gotta love that.

The guys name is Nick Nikolakopoulos, he also runs an online shop in greece. I have emailed him at a couple of different addresses. I'm sure he has good intentions, just wholly misjudged and wrong.

[BenG]

lol, actually google dont do it, it was some random site, probably a pratical joke site :-D

[Southwell]

I know it's too late now, but can't you put a 'disable' on right click in your gallery? I know you can still get around it but most people wouldn't know how to ;)

[jimmy]

nah, to be honest I'm all for people being able to download my photos, people tell me all the time they have their car as their windows background. I think it would just stop people like that.
people who are determined enough to put it on their own site without permission wont be troubled.

[Southwell]

Never thought about that, come to think of it a pic of my car is my wallpaper too!

[Stu]

Maybe you need to watermark the images with your full site address, rather than just the logo? Some text to make it obvious the image is not from the hosting site.

Anyone wanting to crop that bit of image off will have to process each image in turn, making it less attractive than just nicking the image.

[jimmy]

The ones he has in there that I saw have just the buggy logo on there, I usually use the oople.com logo now.. but maybe I need to put text on there as well.. I really dislike huge intrusive watermarking but people like to take the mick it seems if you don't do it to protect yourself.

[bigred5765]

a little edit on your site, to say any use of pictures from this site without prior permission, will be considered copyright theft and dealt with accordingly

[Bathy]

Never thought about that, come to think of it a pic of my car is my wallpaper too!

Sue him Jimmy! oh and the greek dude as well, I see it says 'images downloaded from oople.com' now... that makes it all 'ok' I'm sure.

[jimmy]

haha, well spotted.. I see he has received my email(s) asking him to remove them.. Though I'm not sure which part of it was not understood, I told him I was not credited, I didnt mean credit me and its ok!!!! Most of the photos are not mine! they are petitR/C's.

I emailed him from work, so I will see if he replied tomorrow, but theres no way I'm allowing that madness..

[Stu]

Jimmy, post his emal address here and we'll all spam the crap out of him.

[jimmy]

haha, I'll see what he says tomorrow.. perchance he doesn't understand english too well, I must say, my greek is fairly poor. Let one person take the mickey and they will all do it. whats to stop someone taking my photos from his site, there is no claim of ownership by him.

What if masami hirosaka sees a nice photo of a BX on that site and wants to use it on his living room wall ? maybe he is desperately trying to find the photographer but can't! I have basically just missed out on a full time job at Yokomo.
Im not happy. :D

*please note, the above was a work of fiction

[Northy]

In the words of someone important round here: ":o"

G

[OldTimer]

I have been down this road before Jimmy, and there is not a lot you can do, i had my website address across the center of the image but so it is merged in with the back ground (setup with a photoshop action), as people were croping the corner out of the photos.

[DCM]

I still can't load the site up :(

[jimmy]

I'll close this subject for now, I don't Imagine the guy had and malice intended and I'm sure at the end of the day he was just over eager to help people out. But I do spend hundreds of hours on this site and need to keep my content under control.