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ImageLogr Scrapes "Billions" of Images Illegally

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-you're-gonna-go,-go-big dept.

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.'"

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  1. "Currently offline" by ewg · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "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."

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  2. It's down already. by dotfile · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "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."

  3. Re:If you want to contact them for any reason... by DriedClexler · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You mean they don't want imagelogr@gmail.com harvested by bots?

    Yes.

    Why wouldn't they want imagelogr@gmail.com harvested by bots?

    Spam.

    What's so wrong about imagelogr@gmail.com being harvested by bots?

    Spam.

    I really don't understand why they don't want imagelogr@gmail.com harvested by bots.

    Because they're worried it will be found by spammers and spammed.

    Can someone explain to me what's so bad about imagelogr@gmail.com being harvested by bots?

    Being spammed.

    Maybe I should write them, at imagelogr@gmail.com, to ask why they don't want imagelogr@gmail.com to be harvested by bots.

    Not a good idea, it will probably get lost in all the spam.

    imagelogr@gmail.com !

    Don't understand.

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  4. Just deep-link to all the images by presidenteloco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why bother copying.

    Deep-linking is, or must, always be legal if technically possible, on the WORLD WIDE WEB (def'n: web: a network of interlinked nodes with a high degree of linkage)

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