Posts Tagged "Rip-off"

Hack DJ#2 and Stolen Image

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Hack DJ#2 and Stolen Image

In the past, I’ve written about other DJ’s who ‘borrow’ my images for their use.  It happens often and I only document a few.  But every once in a while I’ll stumbe across one that seems to “take the cake” and this is one of them. I stumbled upon this San Diego DJ’s website and it had DIY written all over it. Turns out that this DJ here in San Diego using another DJs image, from Virgina. By clicking on the only image on the home page, it brought...

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Keep an Eye on Your Images

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Keep an Eye on Your Images

It’s a common rumbling amongst businesses, professionals, artists, photographers, creative types, etc. in today’s world of the internet to find their images, logos or creative work borrowed, or simply flat out stolen.  When I rebuilt my website, I included reworking every single image/picture of mine to include a big watermark on each image. Why? Because alot of my previous work was simply stolen.  I am finding dozens of pictures, content and images that have been hijacked off of...

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How NOT to Borrow (Steal?) Content from Others

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How NOT to Borrow (Steal?) Content from Others

A few months ago when I was planning the launch of our new website, I was perusing my site statistics and analytics. Having used analytics for years and being a bit of a geek, I can quickly scan through pages and pages of data. So when something doesn’t look right, it sticks out like a sore thumb. This is a big sore thumb! GeekTalk: There were a few ‘calls’ to some of my content from an external page.  That sticks out to someone like me like a sore thumb.  Turned out that...

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