Image theft - mosaic and glass crafters take note

A WHOIS lookup of the domain name yeilds this contact information:

Registrant:
Mohamed Abdel Rahman )
netinvest
53 Lebanon Street, Mohandesin, Giza
Cairo, 0058
EG
+20123134061


It was my understanding that many countries respect the copyrights of
other nations. I don't know the particular case for Egypt.

Usually image pirates will download the images to their own servers.
Linking to your servers is not only image theft, but BANDWIDTH theft as
well, and you are paying for that out of your own bandwidth allowance. I
think you can take this up with not only your ISP, but their ISP as well.

Good luck.

-Wendy of NJ

Melinda Tennielle wrote:
Forgive the crosspost, please. If you make mosaics or stained glass, and
have a website with images of your work, you may want to check this site
to see if they're stealing your photos:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/

I am on a list whose members recently noticed this site, and it seems
most of the images are stolen - directly linked from other people's
websites. In fact, you can see that some of the artists have already
replaced the stolen images with warnings about the theft:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=77
(near the bottom)

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=76
(about halfway down).

No one has been able to get in touch with this person, so if you do find
your image has been stolen, you may want to move or rename it, or put a
warning in its place.

M.

Sorry, this is the owner of the ISP where this (likely free) website
resides. Complaining directly to him/them could get the site shut down.

Wendy of NJ wrote:
A WHOIS lookup of the domain name yeilds this contact information:

Registrant:
Mohamed Abdel Rahman )
netinvest
53 Lebanon Street, Mohandesin, Giza
Cairo, 0058
EG
+20123134061


It was my understanding that many countries respect the copyrights of
other nations. I don't know the particular case for Egypt.

Usually image pirates will download the images to their own servers.
Linking to your servers is not only image theft, but BANDWIDTH theft as
well, and you are paying for that out of your own bandwidth allowance. I
think you can take this up with not only your ISP, but their ISP as well.

Good luck.

-Wendy of NJ

Melinda Tennielle wrote:

Forgive the crosspost, please. If you make mosaics or stained glass,
and have a website with images of your work, you may want to check
this site to see if they're stealing your photos:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/

I am on a list whose members recently noticed this site, and it seems
most of the images are stolen - directly linked from other people's
websites. In fact, you can see that some of the artists have already
replaced the stolen images with warnings about the theft:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=77
(near the bottom)

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=76
(about halfway down).

No one has been able to get in touch with this person, so if you do
find your image has been stolen, you may want to move or rename it, or
put a warning in its place.

M.

In needlework the same sort of things goes on. There is a useful yahoogroup
you might want to subscribe to learn more about fighting copyright theft:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/copy_rights

Stitch Lady

"Melinda Tennielle" wrote in message
...
Forgive the crosspost, please. If you make mosaics or stained glass, and
have a website with images of your work, you may want to check this site
to see if they're stealing your photos:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/

I am on a list whose members recently noticed this site, and it seems
most of the images are stolen - directly linked from other people's
websites. In fact, you can see that some of the artists have already
replaced the stolen images with warnings about the theft:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=77
(near the bottom)

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=76
(about halfway down).

No one has been able to get in touch with this person, so if you do find
your image has been stolen, you may want to move or rename it, or put a
warning in its place.

M.


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Michele Blank wrote:
how does one access another's site to be able to make the changes? I would
think that to be difficult without passwords, etc.???

In this case, the site is "stealing" the photos by linking directly to
the artists' own Web sites or galleries, and then passing the work off
as the thieves' own. So you don't need to change a thing about the
thieve's site; just replace your own graphic file with a file of the
same name containing an anti-theft message.

--
Pat Kight

On my own website, I do something similar. To prevent possible piracy, I
rename images and edit my website to reflect the link.

And to stop indexing into Google search engine, if you can put in a
robot.txt file up for your website, put in the following two lines. It will
stop the images being indexed and thus makes it harder for bandwidth pirates
to find your images:

User-Agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

--
Stitch Lady

"Pat Kight" wrote in message
...
In this case, the site is "stealing" the photos by linking directly to
the artists' own Web sites or galleries, and then passing the work off
as the thieves' own. So you don't need to change a thing about the
thieve's site; just replace your own graphic file with a file of the
same name containing an anti-theft message.



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In article , says...

just replace your own graphic file with a file of the
same name containing an anti-theft message.

AND include a 'redirect' link to keep the
viewer in YOUR web site rather than going
back to that of the theif, thereby making
pudding out of sour cream...

The internet is a hierarchy of servers. Sometimes the server servicing
another countries server is in the US and can be persuaded to protest to the
offending server. That server admin will get in touch with the next one down
the line until the server actually hosting the offending web site drops the
customer. Yahoo would be a good place to start since the admin of the
offending site is Mohamed Abdel Rahman )


"Melinda Tennielle" wrote in message
...
Forgive the crosspost, please. If you make mosaics or stained glass, and
have a website with images of your work, you may want to check this site
to see if they're stealing your photos:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/

I am on a list whose members recently noticed this site, and it seems
most of the images are stolen - directly linked from other people's
websites. In fact, you can see that some of the artists have already
replaced the stolen images with warnings about the theft:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=77
(near the bottom)

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=76
(about halfway down).

No one has been able to get in touch with this person, so if you do find
your image has been stolen, you may want to move or rename it, or put a
warning in its place.

M.

My husband emailed me this snippet to stop bandwidth piracy.

I use this .htaccess to prevent people to link to my images from their
own site (bandwidth thieves) :

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.YOURDOMAIN/" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.YOURDOMAIN$" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://YOURDOMAIN/" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://YOURDOMAIN$" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^$" locally_linked=1
FilesMatch "\.(gif|png|jpe?g)$"
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=locally_linked
/FilesMatch

Replace YOURDOMAIN with your own domain name in the .htaccess file.

P.S. I have not tested this code yet so I cannot confirm its validity.

Stitch Lady

"Kevin Doney" wrote in message
thlink.net...
The internet is a hierarchy of servers. Sometimes the server servicing
another countries server is in the US and can be persuaded to protest to
the
offending server. That server admin will get in touch with the next one
down
the line until the server actually hosting the offending web site drops
the
customer. Yahoo would be a good place to start since the admin of the
offending site is Mohamed Abdel Rahman )


"Melinda Tennielle" wrote in message
...
Forgive the crosspost, please. If you make mosaics or stained glass, and
have a website with images of your work, you may want to check this site
to see if they're stealing your photos:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/

I am on a list whose members recently noticed this site, and it seems
most of the images are stolen - directly linked from other people's
websites. In fact, you can see that some of the artists have already
replaced the stolen images with warnings about the theft:

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=77
(near the bottom)

http://www.egypt.tv/home_creation/default.asp?LID=76
(about halfway down).

No one has been able to get in touch with this person, so if you do find
your image has been stolen, you may want to move or rename it, or put a
warning in its place.

M.


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