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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:46 am
by Tony McC
Fancy a laugh?
These pillocks thought it was a good idea to help themslves to some images from my site. If there's one thing I can't abide, it's a thief. Anyone prepared to rip off someone else's hard work is lower than scum.
So: I updated the images for them - take a look! 
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:03 am
by jones2004
Nice work Tony
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:24 pm
by danensis
Not only that but they seem unaware of the difference between "compliment" and "complement".
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:52 pm
by Judi
Superb Tony! Made me laugh even more than the jokes thread!
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:37 pm
by TarmacLady
Brilliant!
I was watching the page references whilst it loaded -- I don't think there's an original photo on the entire site -- they've nicked artwork from everyone on the web, it would seem.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:04 am
by Mick Leek
Am i the only one missing this ? all i can see are some nice piccies of paving ?
Thick as S***E i am
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:53 pm
by danensis
Scroll down!
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:30 pm
by TarmacLady
awwww, drat it all....they've caught on and removed all the piccies they nicked....it was good for a laugh, anyway!
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:49 pm
by mouldmaker
What I find totally unbelieveable is that they didn't just steal the pictures, they hot-linked them! So they use YOUR sever every time the pictures are loaded. Swine!
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:08 pm
by mouldmaker
Fancy a laugh?
I went through source code and followed back some of their image links, then emailed the owners of the images to let them know.
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:50 pm
by Tony McC
Not to worry - I have another "victim"..... :p
http://tiger.towson.edu/~mdough4/
...the clowns from Franco emailed me protesting that they had paid some teenage geek, in good faith, to construct their website, and were full of apologies, but, as Mike Mouldmaker pointed out, EVERY image on their site is called from other folks' servers!
Let's see how long it takes them to spot the new image!
It never ceases to amaze me how incredibly loyal are the readers of this site - as soon as they spot summat that's been nicked, they let me know and it seems they are as indignant as I am at such blatant disregard for intellectual property.
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:22 pm
by phippster
That stolen image is still there! That's one top quality web-site.
:p
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:38 pm
by TarmacLady
It looks like it was done as a classroom exercise by some of the lazier students at Towson University, and isn't being done for profit.
BUT it also doesn't give them the right to nick Tony's work -- even if it's considered fair use for academic purposes, they are still legally obligated to cite the source -- and shame on the instructor for not enforcing this legal requirement.
(see, I *did* learn summat in all those years at uni!)
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:35 pm
by pepperday
I know this isn't related to pictures but the best thing we had nicked from site were 2 110v rad rad heaters. I still have visions of a house melting / blowing up somewhere in the country.
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:36 pm
by pepperday
re above red rad heaters