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Why do people like this exist

Fri Oct 23, 2009, 11:08 AM
  • Mood: Irritated
  • Listening to: more like ignoring... the voices in my head.
This journal entry will likely turn into a rant, but will have some important information. If you are reading this, and you yourself publish photo's online, or know someone who does this will be worth your time.

I am a member of the Mail Artisans International League (M.A.I.L), a few days ago it was brought to the attention of the community that somebody was stealing our content, blatantly and willfully infringing on copyright material [link] to put on his "blog" chainmaille.org. the BoD having experience with these matters jumped into over drive and within 24 hours he took down the site, as your can see from this [link] . Now, he's at it again. a member of the admin team was monitoring his site, just in case he would try something again. He's currently testing blog posts hot linking from a variety of websites, on his site he states

Quote (but condensed for size), "If you notice a picture on this website that belongs to you. Since I am not hosting the images or videos. I will need to refer you to each of the hosting companies.
Companies I am using are as follows: photobucket.com, webshots.com, slide.com, tinypic.com, Youtube.com, Google.com, and all other sites that are hosting images and video."

Contacting him as he says to do will result in nothing if you read my links above you will see this. He has over 70 domains, and based on what I've seen I can safely assume this isn't only people who make chainmaille that will be affected by this guy. He does not give credit, he is STEALING your work. There is only one thing left to do, do a little research, find out if your affected, and go for the throat!

Based on this same evidence, I am going to agree with another member of MAIL. From the looks of things, all he does is steal content to give his websites content, to bring people to his site to try and make money off all the ads. He is making money off YOUR work. Your work which you uploaded somewhere, to share with others of your artistic community, to stir inspiration from those who view it. People like this guy NEED to be stopped and the only way to do it is to stay alert, and take action.

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  • Current Residence: Fort Saskatchewan
  • Interests: Weaving Chainmaille, Gaming, Reading a good book, Watching a good movie, Lots
  • Favourite band or musician: Demon Hunter
  • Operating System: Windows XP
  • Favourite gaming platform: Computer > Platform
  • Tools of the Trade: Anodizer, Ringinator, Pliars of all types, and Lots of patience

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:icontechnophonix:
Thanks for the fav. :)
:iconcionbird:
Thanks for the fav!
:iconnarrina:
You have some very nice chainmaille pieces, Chubbs! Welcome to DA.
:iconchubbs-99:
Thank you :)

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Life life as if you were drawing in ink. You can't start over when you make a mistake, instead incorperate it into your life and turn it into something beautiful. ~as far as i know... Me
:iconaemi:
hey you! XD nice to see youve joined the ranks of the clinically insane :)

~tab

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It's not Eve's fault she ate the apple. It's God's fault for putting the tree there in the first place.

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Never make someone your everything, or when they're gone you'll have nothing.

Ian, baby, I miss you so much...
:iconchubbs-99:
lol i think i made the account sometime last week? was just going to wait till my photo qality got better to use it

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Life life as if you were drawing in ink. You can't start over when you make a mistake, instead incorperate it into your life and turn it into something beautiful. ~as far as i know... Me
:iconaemi:
ya didnt you make it when the links I sent you came up as mature filtered?

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It's not Eve's fault she ate the apple. It's God's fault for putting the tree there in the first place.

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Never make someone your everything, or when they're gone you'll have nothing.

Ian, baby, I miss you so much...
:iconchubbs-99:
Eventually yeah. after a tempurary ban due to so many people having my name xD.

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Life life as if you were drawing in ink. You can't start over when you make a mistake, instead incorperate it into your life and turn it into something beautiful. ~as far as i know... Me
:iconaemi:
lol nice

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It's not Eve's fault she ate the apple. It's God's fault for putting the tree there in the first place.

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Never make someone your everything, or when they're gone you'll have nothing.

Ian, baby, I miss you so much...

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