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I saw that pic, and thought it was yours. Then I zoomed in on the watermark they tried to remove. It said college feet or something like that, so I didn't say anything.
BTW Patrick..your work rocks.
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Thank you Brek. They managed to blur out my copyright stamps, or cut them off the edge. Here is the main image that was brought to my attention:
As you can see (below), my image was reversed and then the stamp taken off. Apparently the image is still on their server since the above link still works too - just not being shown.
I registered to post a rant in their discussion forum, but I think they knew what was coming, and deleted the forum altogether.
I wouldn't be surprised if the entire instructional series was also copied and pasted from a well known source, simply substituting "how to sleep with women" with "how to score feet"
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It's odd that you had this much trouble. I was simply nice and direct and both times was answered within a couple hours and the images down. Must be different approaches. I apparently got the "girl" Layla from their site.
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Well, excluding the "links", those pages have been giving a 404 error for the last eight hours or so.
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"Layla" was apologetic, but hesitant to respond at first, probably because she feared a wave of webmasters knocking to claim their images after you spilled the beans.
In my case, the image in question had been used in banners and headers throughout their site.
Now they've apparently just deleted those entire pages altogether, even the contact page.
Doubtful anyone was paying a thousand pounds to sign-up for those boot camps anyway.
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Wow that site is such a bogus sham..worst infomercial BS I've seen in awhile. I've had the same thing happen recently on Facebook where some Italian who doesn't speak english chopped and photoshopped {very poorly} my watermark out and claimed them as his. Problem is, there's really no internet security or reprocussions for this behavior..unless somehow you lock all your images on your site so no one can right click them...but what's the point of that?
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quote:Originally posted by Wrinklesguy: Wow that site is such a bogus sham..worst infomercial BS I've seen in awhile. I've had the same thing happen recently on Facebook where some Italian who doesn't speak english chopped and photoshopped {very poorly} my watermark out and claimed them as his. Problem is, there's really no internet security or reprocussions for this behavior..unless somehow you lock all your images on your site so no one can right click them...but what's the point of that?
Funny story. A few years ago one of my models found a profile on MySpace that claimed to be her. That profile was of Carmen. The best thing was, however, that all the full body shots and face shots were Carmen photos from Soles of Silk. But when Carmen looked at the feet close up photos, they were some other girl's feet. LOL... Carmen called me and was bitching - not because they claimed to be her and used her photos, but because they put different feet up for the close ups instead of stealing those too. Carmen told me people used to tease her about her feet when she was real little. She asked if they did that because her feet weren't cute. I told her she was being dumb asking that after all the positive comments she had seen from this forum and through emails I had sent her.
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And let`s not get started about Youtube, Flickr and Webshots....loads of our material is on those websites, often with our watermarks/logos removed and claimed as someone elses. I´ve also seen a few fake profiles on Myspace with photos of my barefoot models....it`s really weird and sick!
Well, at least we know they cycle the stolen content because I made several posts on your thread and even though I didn't check it out at the start, I did later and none of my photos were on there at that time. Guess I'll have to bookmark it and check back every so often.
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