Pinterest users lifting pictures from forum
I've always said watch all what you post about your personal information regarding your family and RV on a public forum. A friend of mine found a picture of my RV that I posted here on Pinterest. A...
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What I find ironic is that Pinterest demands you create an account and give them personal info, but yet, is happy to grab pictures of other people's stuff and use it freely.
I generally just don't care... however on my website, I use Digimarc's invisible watermarking service. This way, if there is any question about image ownership, it is quite obvious. I've only used a DMCA takedown once, and that was when someone else was using my images, then contacted me, demanding I pay them. This was after I noticed this person linking directly to my server, running up my bandwidth costs. So, I put some scripting in which would disallow pictures to be fetched if the browser's Referer: header wasn't from my site.
I generally just don't care... however on my website, I use Digimarc's invisible watermarking service. This way, if there is any question about image ownership, it is quite obvious. I've only used a DMCA takedown once, and that was when someone else was using my images, then contacted me, demanding I pay them. This was after I noticed this person linking directly to my server, running up my bandwidth costs. So, I put some scripting in which would disallow pictures to be fetched if the browser's Referer: header wasn't from my site.
