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ImageLogr Scrapes "Billions" of Images Illegally
PurpleCarrot writes "In what must be one of the largest attempts to scrape images from the Web, the site ImageLogr.com 'claims to be scraping the entire "free web" and seems to have hit Flickr especially hard, copying full-sized images of yours and mine to their own servers, where they are hosting them without any attribution or links back to the original image in violation of all available licenses on Flickr.' The site even contains the option to directly download images that ImageLogr has scraped. What makes this endeavor so amazing is that it isn't a case of 'other people gave us millions of infringing images, help us remove the wrong ones,' but one of 'we took all the images on the Web; if we got one of yours, oops!' The former gets some protection from the DMCA, whereas the latter is blatant infringement. ImageLogr's actions have caused a flurry of activity, and the site's owners have subsequently taken it offline, displaying the following message: 'Imagelogr.com is currently offline as we are improving the website. Due to copyright issues we are now changing some stuff around to make people happy. Please check back soon.'"
currently offline as we are improving the website
Nay ye scoundrels. Ye hath been slashdotted!
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Wait...is this a case where anti-copyright people are complaining about someone stealing their stuff?
Where did you see the word "stealing"? All I saw were complaints that a company was illegally copying and reproducing images in violation of copyright law. I'm not sure where you get the idea that the people posting comments here are "anti-copyright" either, although personally I'm in favor of a lot of copyright reform.
And now my Facebook profile picture ends up on an Anti-Herpes-Drug ad.
With my luck, every female I know will see it.
You mean they don't want imagelogr@gmail.com harvested by bots?
Why wouldn't they want imagelogr@gmail.com harvested by bots?
What's so wrong about imagelogr@gmail.com being harvested by bots?
I really don't understand why they don't want imagelogr@gmail.com harvested by bots.
Can someone explain to me what's so bad about imagelogr@gmail.com being harvested by bots?
Maybe I should write them, at imagelogr@gmail.com, to ask why they don't want imagelogr@gmail.com to be harvested by bots.
imagelogr@gmail.com !
And now my Facebook profile picture ends up on an Anti-Herpes-Drug ad.
With my luck, every female I know will see it.
Hey, you're a Slashdotter. Showing up in an anti-herpes drug ad would probably only improve your prospects.
This ain't rocket surgery.
Is that too difficult for you to grasp?
Yes. I am sure it is too difficult for him.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Keep up that attitude, and we'll put it on a Pro-Herpes-Drug ad.
I know of some people who would prefer you just took the original items away, no need for copying.
The Binary Anti-Pattern [http://beyondboolean.blogspot.com/]
I've never put Katherine Heigl online.
Your scheme is a fraud.
Not if you use The Cloud.
Google brings ImageLogr servers to its knees by scraping images from them. (Details at 11:00)
As you can see, a quick google search points us to here.
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.
Keep up that attitude, and we'll put it on a Pro-Herpes-Drug ad.
"Herpes. It's what's for dinner."
Yes, I know, way, way too far.
-Taylor
Actually, not too far from the truth. Do a google image search for genital warts. You know all those spam sites that return "The Best ____" where ____ is whatever your search term was? :) Yeah, they're offering the Best Genital Warts, free shipping, etc. Google's improved their algorithms, but there used to be a ton of spam links in the first two pages of results.
Old screenshot: genital warts image results (SFW).
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