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Photo Web Site Offers a Wall of Shame For Image Thieves

sandbagger (654585) writes "Stop Stealing Photos is a resource in the pro photographer community for protecting consumers. How? By identifying wannabes who use images in their portfolios that they did not create. In this case, one 'photographer' built a massive social media presence, in many platforms including Linked In where he includes System Architecture in his skills. However, such advocacy web sites are very manual and often run by non-programmers. How can the tech community help consumers in protecting them from phoney on-line presences? Or is this vigilantism?"

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  1. Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I have a single resource to go to for all my 'good enough to steal' photograph needs!

  2. Simple by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hire the "big fat phony" guy from Family Guy.

  3. Re:Yes... by viperidaenz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot markup for links is pretty simple. <a href="link goes here">Text goes here</a>

    Fun Fact: Tim Berners-Lee used Slashdot markup as his inspiration for the HTML 1.0 standard back in 1993.

  4. Re:Yes... by Oligonicella · · Score: 1, Funny

    Funner fact, Wikipedia has the history of HTML. "Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990."

  5. Re:Yes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Brett Baughman is awesome! Did you know that he's a coach? Yes, that's right, he's a genuine "success coach", C-Level executive, model and photographer. Wow!

    With employment lengths ranging from four months to one year, companies cannot seem to keep a hold on this fast riser! His Linkedin page show just how in demand this man is!