Pilfering Nirvana Coming!

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Plagiarized Photography Portfolios are Now Just One Click Away…

From the article:

You know, it used to be even photography thieves had to put some work in if they wanted to get a bit of dishonest business, but a new project by the name of Pro-folio shows that just a little bit of code can make stealing photos and creating a whole fake portfolio a one-click affair.

[RSL]

So THAT's where all those direct links to the photos on my webs are going! Not long ago I started playing with C# again, and built a webalizer that, among many other things, tells me when somebody's linking directly to a picture without going through the site URL(s) to get to it. Fascinating. Only one problem I can see: If a thief gets a job on the basis of my photographs, how does he plan to do work that good? He may have to practice up a bit.

[David Anderson]

how does he plan to do work that good? He may have to practice up a bit.

 

The thief gets a job based on proper photographs, the client falls for it, butsoon learns the awful truth and then calls a real photographer to do a cheap re-shoot because they've no money left. 

IMHO, unless web providers are made to enforce copyright, the net is going to eat itself for lunch..

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Too bad. There goes my future livelihood, since they took the project down before I could order a portfolio in one of my pen names ("Ansel Adams" for example).