Warning, your photos are being stolen!

[sthuman]

Has anyone seen this site? They are stealing photos without permission. I did a search for my (real) name and found 662 photos

http://www.fotosimagen.com/

[wildhareuk]

There are quite a lot of my images (seemingly random) on here as well.

I can't work out what the site actually does other than appearing to be an image search site. If so, the images should be linkable back to the original page, but they aren't.

There are quite a few other discussions going on around the web. Flickr and Smugmug are also involved. Yahoo appear to be investigating the site on behalf of Flickr.

[parpho]

I searched pbase on this site and it showed 4,652,239 pbase images. I imagine just about all of us must have images on there somewhere.

[viljamix]

Check this out:

http://www.naturescapes.net/phpBB3/view ... 1&t=179037

and this, the site has been suspended:

http://fotosimagen.com/

[sb_photos]

They can't have any taste because they have some of my images, too.

As best as I can understand, it's search tool for photos. What's odd is that some of my images that it found haven't been on my PBase site for a year or more...

Stu

[ed_sawyer]

I too searched the site and found about 135 of my photos, quite a few of which are no longer on my PBASE site.

[amoxtli]

Wow, these guys really mined my site. Does anybody have any idea how to contact these people?

[ralf]

I can't work out what the site actually does other than appearing to be an image search site. If so, the images should be linkable back to the original page, but they aren't.

When I checked it out just now by searching on my name, the site did link back to the original page, and the original image file. Click on the thumbnail in the search result and you get a page with a slightly larger thumb that links to the original image and a framed view of the original page, just like Google Image Search. Of course, that may not hold true for images which have already been deleted in the original location.

[mccartney]

Rather flattering!
I wouldn't be worried unless you have uploaded high res images. The low res images that most of us upload, while looking nice on a computer screen, really won't make much of a print. However their linking to our Pbase accounts will give our pics a wider global audience, which is always nice.

[cits_4_pets]

they had 27 pages of my images...linked back to pbase...but even non=public gallery images are there.

http://www.naturescapes.net/phpBB3/view ... 1&t=179037 has a copyright infringement letter..

[troron]

Rather flattering!
I wouldn't be worried unless you have uploaded high res images. The low res images that most of us upload, while looking nice on a computer screen, really won't make much of a print. However their linking to our Pbase accounts will give our pics a wider global audience, which is always nice.

A guy who understands!

I am flattered if someone steals an 800x600 72dpi image of mine. All he or she gets is an image that is so rough you can't print it (300dpi) and have it used on say, a calender or anything like that.

[lschell]

I am flattered if someone steals an 800x600 72dpi image of mine.

And why do you think it is 72 dpi?

[prinothcat]

I am flattered if someone steals an 800x600 72dpi image of mine.

And why do you think it is 72 dpi?

This is a good point. I still give myself headaches wrapping my head around it. But I do know that my 800x536 72 Pixel Per Inch image is not the necessarily the same as a 300 Dot Per Inch rendering of the image. If my brain has it right, 800x536 @ 72x72 will render about 11x7 inches, but the actual Dots Per Inch at which the images is rendered is independent of this data.

{addendum} I did just find out I can set PPI in Apples Preview ( a handy little batch editor I didn't know I had ) and it sets an equivalent DPI... so in this case at least I know 72x72 is the same lousy resolution in both DPI and PPI..... I think....

[troron]

I am flattered if someone steals an 800x600 72dpi image of mine.

And why do you think it is 72 dpi?

Because I save it as 72dpi!
It's not debatable.

[troron]

This is almost something that can't be described with text but you have it right.

Do this:
Save any image you have at 800 wide 300dpi. If you have photoshop its easy.
Now print it out on your printer letter size.
Ok now save the same image at 800 wide and 72 dpi and print it out letter size... UGLY
But that is not the real test. The real test is to upload each of them to Pbase and see what they look like.
The will LOOK that same ...but PRINT much differently
You have to do this yourself before you will ever be satisfied.
Just do it.