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01/23/2003 Entry: "thieving little bastards"

Hhhhmmm ...

Any of these images look familiar?

I don't have the time to deal with robbery of this many photos at the moment but as soon as I find a bit of free time, someone will be very sorry. I'm open to suggestions as to what I should replace the "borrowed" pictures with. Go for the pink plush teddy bears or maybe something graphic enough to get the message across that I'm pissed?

* UPDATE *

an e-mail from the Copyright division of Lycos:

"The owner of the Angelfire site found at:

http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/theatersniper/

- has been informed of your copyright complaint. In accordance with the
DMCA, they have been given a copy of your infringement notice, their
site has been removed, and they have been furnished with guidelines in
the event that they elect to contest this action."

Beats having to rename 32 images any day.
If they'd only asked permission, they'd still have their site.
Hope they learned something from this but I kind of doubt it.

Posted by Sue @ 01/27/2003 09:40 AM ET

I'm glad the law worked for you, but for future reference...

Posted by PhotoDude @ 01/26/2003 02:15 PM ET

Good grief, that actually worked? Now I'm in a quandary about that blasted Act.

Thanks for the update, John!

Posted by dan @ 01/25/2003 03:51 PM ET

No teddy bears for this one! Light up their site with a nice, repetitous gif!

Posted by dan @ 01/23/2003 06:21 PM ET

what a badAss.
and a crummy designer too!
ugh. fix him up OK? fix him GOOD.
yes i love that I STEAL idea!!

snarlllllllllllll.

Posted by bobbi @ 01/23/2003 02:37 PM ET

using your images without permission is bad, but stealing your bandwidth deserves more than pink teddy bears. maybe replace the images with a simple text gif "I STEAL IMAGES AND BANDWIDTH". oh, and email them a bill too. i have even more evil ideas, but you probably want to keep it legal. :)

Posted by laura @ 01/23/2003 01:41 PM ET

The least they could have done was given credit. And, of course, they should have requested permission.

Sometime today, I'll send you over a snippet of javascript to disable right-clicks that you can place or include in your template code. That is, as soon as I write it!

Posted by GerenM @ 01/23/2003 09:06 AM ET