p.1 #2 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Impressive indeed. Much more fun to take your own pictures than steal someone else's, anyway.
May 10, 2012 at 12:54 PM
MarcAnthony Offline • • • [X]
p.1 #3 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
I hate to say this but it is not uncommon. It happens all the time. Hopefully something like this will deter somebody from doing it. But just like people who attend weddings as guests and pass off the wedding photos as being the hired professional things like this will occur.
p.1 #4 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
MarcAnthony wrote:
I hate to say this but it is not uncommon. It happens all the time. Hopefully something like this will deter somebody from doing it. But just like people who attend weddings as guests and pass off the wedding photos as being the hired professional things like this will occur.
p.1 #5 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
It's one thing to go on these peoples' pages and say, "Quit. Get out. Stop stealing images." One of the guys on there though signed her up for Cat Facts. What a douche.
Oh, how excessive amounts of immaturity exist when the anonymity of the internet is in play.
p.1 #6 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
I followed this starting yesterday morning when her website and Facebook page were still live. Things got pretty nasty. There's no question that she deserved being called out, and much of what was said were fair statements. A smaller percentage of comments got a little out of line and too personal.
Crazy how quickly a story like this can pick up steam in this ever connected society.
p.1 #7 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Prettym1k3 wrote:
It's one thing to go on these peoples' pages and say, "Quit. Get out. Stop stealing images." One of the guys on there though signed her up for Cat Facts. What a douche.
Oh, how excessive amounts of immaturity exist when the anonymity of the internet is in play.
i think that cat facts should be least of her problems.
she hurt lot of people, money wise (competitors, IP theft) and emotionally (customers)
it is actually sign of that people are really nice, when she just walks away with "sorry, ma bad"
p.1 #8 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
I thought I came across an FM post about a CL ad with photos that is ripped from another photographer?
I suspect this is more prevalent than we're aware of in a global scale. Who's to say your photos are not being used by some photographer in Budapest or Sydney?
p.1 #9 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Hopefully this happens more often to deter people doing it. Until now when people get found they just take the shot down and keep going.
Prettym1k3 wrote:
It's one thing to go on these peoples' pages and say, "Quit. Get out. Stop stealing images." One of the guys on there though signed her up for Cat Facts. What a douche.
Oh, how excessive amounts of immaturity exist when the anonymity of the internet is in play.
p.1 #10 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Ghost wrote:
I thought I came across an FM post about a CL ad with photos that is ripped from another photographer?
I suspect this is more prevalent than we're aware of in a global scale. Who's to say your photos are not being used by some photographer in Budapest or Sydney?
p.1 #12 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Ghost wrote:
I thought I came across an FM post about a CL ad with photos that is ripped from another photographer?
I suspect this is more prevalent than we're aware of in a global scale. Who's to say your photos are not being used by some photographer in Budapest or Sydney?
It's not that hard to check being able to reverse image search on google. If you have 50 pics per blog entry stretching back years it may take a while though.
p.1 #13 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Heh, similar things happened to a couple of our local photographers, and as soon as it was outed on Facebook, it blew up and we had the copycat shutdown in no time... I guess FB is good for some things...
May 10, 2012 at 04:07 PM
MarcAnthony Offline • • • [X]
p.1 #14 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Go to http://www.tineye.com/ and you can enter in the url of your photo and see if anyone else has used it.
p.1 #15 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
MarcAnthony wrote:
Go to http://www.tineye.com/ and you can enter in the url of your photo and see if anyone else has used it.
The database is very very small, google's is much better. Go to http://images.google.com, click on the camera in the search bar and you can give it a file or url.
p.1 #16 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Do you have to search one photo at a time or is there a way to batch it? Maybe putting together some kind of FAQ on how to check your pictures for usage on other sites would be good.
p.1 #18 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
stillresonance wrote:
Do you have to search one photo at a time or is there a way to batch it? Maybe putting together some kind of FAQ on how to check your pictures for usage on other sites would be good.
Ghost wrote:
But that's by URL reference. What if someone downloaded it and re-upload it elsewhere?
Am I missing something?
I'm not sure what you mean, it uses the actual picture itself to search it's index of pictures not filenames or anything. You give it the image either via url or browsing to a file on your computer.
I've used it to verify at least two fake profiles for models when I have been looking for models to use.
p.1 #19 · Wow, the power of social media (outing a fraud)
Mark_L wrote:
Also have a look at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/who-stole-my-pictures/
Yeah, that's a variation of the stolen camera finder, where you drop in a picture and it searches by the exif data for your serial number. Not 100% reliable, but, it work fairly well.
