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Photo Web Site Offers a Wall of Shame For Image Thieves

Posted by timothy on from the fightin'-words dept.

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. Re:This has what to do with slashdot? by CanHasDIY · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only thing technology related is the fact that it's a web page.

    And involves cameras.

    And IP theft.

    All of which are regular topics on Slashdot.

    Nobody's putting a gun to your head and forcing you to come here and comment... are they? Blink twice if yes.

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  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.