Time for watermarks
Occasionally I check my site statistics to see how much traffic I’m getting, how people are linking to my sites, etc. I noticed that BOMBIPPY PHOTOS was getting a lot of traffic from nexopia.com and xanga.com.
Several users at nexopia (teenagers) were hijacking my photos. Users like science*time, afrodeeziak, dodad15, and hollisinheaven liked my images so much they put them on their sites without asking me. I suppose I should be flattered but I’m not.
I changed the .htaccess file on all of my sites to prevent outside linking of images and bandwidth theft. I’m also going to make it a habit of watermarking all of my images with BOMBIPPY PHOTOS. I’ve been avoiding this because I felt the images look better without it. Now, it looks like this will be a necessary part of my workflow when posting new photos.
Stumble It!Posted in Photography at 12:37 PM
Comments
How incredibly flattering of you to go and smartarsedly mention me on your site. If you knew jacks@#$ about copyright infringement, perhaps you would have placed a copyright sign on it before. Aside from that, your photography (from the other works that I have seen) suck. I will put a link on my site to yours, and let everyone know what a low person you are. Bye!
Posted by: Rolls Eyes on February 8, 2006 4:36 PM
Hi Gary. You gotta love it when your friends stop by and stir things up.
If you’re going to try and be anonymous then at least use a computer at an Internet café or something. You’d be surprised what you can find out with a simple whois search.
Oh, and just so we’re clear, the fine print on every BOMBIPPY PHOTOS page says “Contents of this site are under a Creative Commons Licence. Photos cannont be used without permission.”
l0zEr!
Posted by: Jay on February 8, 2006 9:29 PM
