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Dealing with Image theft - how not to sell an Epson 4000 :-)

2004-03-30 by kcooper666

Hi

There have been frequent discussions about people 'borrowing' images
by directly linking to them on someone elses web site.

I've got a load of Epson 4000 info on a page of my site with pictures from all over the 
place (Epson UK were obviously quite happy with this, since I got invited to a party in 
London where I ended up getting a very good deal on a 9600 :-)

Looking at my web server logs I noticed a lot of hits from eBay -
someone was trying to sell a 4000 and had linked to my site.

I could have complained to eBay, but a few slight changes to files on my site gives:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3470510589&category=14303>

Had they been some of my original Black and White work I might have been a bit less 
subtle in my comments...

I'm not sure how long it will be until the buyer notices -- I'd just like to see
the look on their face :-)

Hope this is of use to people with web galleries

bye for now

Keith Cooper
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk

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