jitams wrote:This person copies ideas, styles, locations of photos, photo types taken and then tries to take credit for everything in their copied photo.
It sounds like pretty blatant copyright infringement. Depending on where they are and where the site that is hosting the stolen images is, you could try rattling some legal sabres or issue a DMCA takedown notice or similar to whoever is hosting the content.
jitams wrote: I have this person in my blacklist, and they still manage to view/copy. I don't want this person looking at any of my photos.
this person is typically on Facebook on iphone, so are you saying that if they just browse on Safari from their iphone, there's nothing that can be done?
I'm saying that neither Safari nor iPhones have anything to do with it. If a page of a website is public, it's public. It's accessible to any browser on any computing device which has an internet connection.
jitams wrote:Facebook has a block setting where they cannot see anything under my Facebook account as though my account doesn't exist.
The analogy doesn't really hold. Yes, you can make a profile non-public in Facebook. That means that nobody sees it unless they are a member of Facebook, though becoming one is easy. So you would then need to lock it down further, giving access to only particular friends. (Though speaking from personal experience that's far from foolproof either.)
That's fine... but then nobody can (in theory) see any part of your profile unless they are (a) a Facebook member and (b) you have given them access.
Can you do the same thing on a photo sharing web site? On Flickr, yes; it has access levels of Public, Private, Friends, Family or Family and Friends. However to fall into those last groups, the person needs a Flickr account, just the same way as a viewer needs a Facebook account to be able to see your account there.
PBase uses an alternative method; passkeys. You can hide away your photos in password protected galleries. The advantage of that is that you can give
anyone the key; they don't need to be a member of PBase. The disadvantage is that people need to enter a password every time they visit. And the other disadvantage is that nobody in the general public - that is, anyone without the password - will see your work. This is little different to the Facebook setting that you're talking about. Yes, you can make a photo or a gallery non-public, but it means that nobody will see it unless you've told them about it. (Subject to what I said above about Facebook leaking like a sieve.)
Those are essentially your two choices; you either hide the galleries behind a password and nobody except the people that you nominate will see them, or leave them public.
However there is no way for
any system to say "Block this one person out of 7,714,576,923 people in the world, but let the other 7,714,576,922 through". It's just not the way the Web works.