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dyzani411

Guest
I live in California...
Hi
Someone has stolen (copyed) my pictures off of my AOL website and is using them on another website. I don't know the person who did this, and don't really know the website to well.
Its a RATEING website... like to rate peoples looks... and someone is on there claiming to be me, and using my pictures without my permission...
Is this LEGAL???
I've asked them to take them off... and also talked to the owner of the website, asking him to take them off too... they are both acting like jerks and saying they won't.
What can I do or say to them???
I want my pictures off of their website....
Isn't there a copyright law agaist this... since they are mine?
I want to scare them...
I also have the website owners email address, phone number, and home address (I got in from the WHOIS website)
Thank you,
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admiral

Guest
Online Pictures

I sympathize with your situation however, the use of your pictures on someone elses website is not a recoverable action, unless you can prove monetary loss as a result...which is extremely difficult and next to impossible.

There was a local case about a month ago where a young woman's picture was taken from a website personals ad and placed on a website offering pornographic services. She like you try unsuccessfully to have her picture taken down but when you post your picture to the Internet you can not have any expectation of confidentiality or implied sole use thereof unless you have each photo copyrighted. Without that it becomes open domain property.

I am sorry and hopefully in the future you will be extremely reluctant to post anything you do not want the entire world seeing, or using.

Best of luck.
 
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racer72

Senior Member
Have you contacted the hosting company of the website? Let them know that a client of theirs is violating a copyright of yours and that if the pictures are not removed, they will be a party in the lawsuit brought against the owners of the site. I have found most hosting companies do not like trouble and will let the folks that have your pictures online that the pictures should be removed.

Some jerks that steal pictures from the web do not actally save the picture on their own server. They use secondary linking to make your picture appear on their site. To find out right click on the picture and click properties. If the picture is linked, it will show up. I have had this happen before and I used a little trickery to foul up the other site. I renamed the pictures on my site so the secondary links do not work. Then I uploaded some real disgusting pictures and named them the exact same name as the other pictures. These pictures do not have to be put on a web page, they just have to be in your web server directory where the other pictures were. Guess what visitors to the other site see when log on? Definitly not your pictures.
 
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gestalt

Guest
Hi California,

This is not going to help you now but if you are the designer of the sight, here is a little java script secret that can disable all photos on your site. Meaning the photos are unable to be copied and pasted by anyone.
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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
var message="Sorry, this function has been disabled"
function click(e)
{if (document.all)
{
if (event.button == 2)
{
alert (message) ;
return false ;
}
}
if (document.layers)
{
if (e.which == 3)
{
alert (message) ;
return false;
}
}
}
if (document.layers)
{
document.captureEvents (Event.MOUSEDOWN);
}
document.onmousedown=click;
</SCRIPT>

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Place this code in between the <head>java script here</head> and this will disable anyone from copying your pictures.

Later!
 
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divgradcurl

Senior Member
Unfortuately, you can bypass this script by simply disabling JavaScript in the browser -- although I suppose the majority of Internet users probably wouldn't know that.

Also, in IE 6.0 and above, there is an option (on by default) for an image toolbar, from which you can save an image even with this script running and JavaScript enabled.

The script is better than nothing -- however, the very way by which the web works -- you have to download a local copy of any image you wish to view -- makes it impossible to keep someone from finding a way to capture an image from a website.
 
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