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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rockhillmanor wrote:sch911 wrote:
Let's look at the facts though: The RV.NET forums does not host pictures. Other than those small signature pics, period. You can set links or embed pictures posted on other sites in your posts.So it is simply not possible for anyone to have stolen them from this site.
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That is NOT true.
Right click on ANY picture on this forum and then click save image as. The PICTURE goes to your picture file and then it's yours to do with whatever.
Actually it is. You are seeing the page text from RV.net's server, but the image file is coming from Photobucket or Flickr or wherever the person who posted it uploaded it to.
As an example, here's a thread in which I posted some pics of my generator:
http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/28689551.cfm
Those images are NOT hosted on RV.net - they are on Photobucket. While you can right-click and save, they are technically NOT on RV.net and never have been. RV.net's page code tells your browser where to get the picture from.
