New [stolen] image search tool from Google

Musicman said:
I have very rusty DOS skillz, I'm afraid. The last time I used an MS operating system in anger was DOS v3.x circa 1989.

Did you copy the .dll files to your C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\ folder?
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Hope :lol:

Theres 3 dll files should I move them all to sys32, and what folder please

libcurl.DLL
libeay32.DLL
libssl32.DLL
 
I'm unable to try this, but it's the same technique as Opera uses to get past Google's pointless browser sniffing:

Enable Development in Safari (Preferences > Advanced), enable Develop menu and then use Develop > User Agent and mask Safari as Firefox. Hope it works.
 
Rictus said:
Just tried this for the first time. Lo and behold some American "personal growth" commercial site has had one of my photographs (absolutely no doubt) since 2009! It was blagged off Flickr where it had the most stringent CC license set...
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I think most of the nicked images are from flickr.
 
Just Dave said:
Hope :lol:

Theres 3 dll files should I move them all to sys32, and what folder please

libcurl.DLL
libeay32.DLL
libssl32.DLL
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Yep, into C:\WINDOWS\system32\

and the curl.exe file in C:\WINDOWS\ too, so that it will operate from the command line without your having to specify the full path to the .exe file.
 
Musicman said:
Yep, into C:\WINDOWS\system32\

and the curl.exe file in C:\WINDOWS\ too, so that it will operate from the command line without your having to specify the full path to the .exe file.
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Theres 14 files in the folder all together, not sure what to do with them, except what you have said
 
Musicman said:
Did you just change it to ARR?
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I did indeed. It is irrelevant, however, they are being used for business purposes, have been transformed and have not carried over the licensing details nor named the author. Thus they are still in breach of the license.

What troubles me is how Flickr ended up not set on ARR. When I first set up the account I set it to ARR as default. Curious.
 
Another option for Curl with Windows 7:

Place the files in a folder of their own.

Shift+RightClick on the folder name and select Open command window here.

Type curl -I http://www.bad-site.com/stolen-image.jpg (brewed to taste) and hit Enter.
 
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photon said:
Another option for Curl with Windows 7:

Place the files in a folder of their own.

Shift+RightClick on the folder name and select Open command window here.

Type curl -I http://www.bad-site.com/stolen-image.jpg (brewed to taste) and hit Enter.
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Stll doesnt work, it does open the dos window so I'll just keep trying, is the a way to paste in the address as most of them are really long, thanks for all your help :thumbs:
 
There's the K option for a config file, but I really think we're all better off using a screenshot showing the image in question with its HTTP headers, highlighting the last modified line: far easier for the errant site owner to understand.

In the past I've asked them to audit their stock of images while renaming my online version to confirm what's what, if they could be bothered to search for it. While I was instrumental in getting over 50 nicked images (along with one of mine) removed from a Heritage Lottery Funded national charity's site, the game wasn't appreciated, so I now send a reasonable invoice with the backing of the late payment legislation, and have a few weeks' email ping-pong before they pay.

I don't use Firefox, so haven't tried the HTTP headers add-on for it, which should give similar results to Opera's Dragonfly.
 
Just looked at my ones I knew one of them had been stolen but now theres another and its everywhere on commercial sites
 
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photon said:
Hotlinking has been frowned upon from the early days of the Web. If you have access to administer your webspace, and it's running on Apache, you can stop hotlinking and substitute another image with an .htaccess file (web.config for Windows server with IIS) -- plenty of tutorials: search for stop hotlinking. Search for deny referrer to stop visitors to a particular website following links to content at your site.

A blogger would probably claim they haven't any budget for photos, but it could be worth coming to an agreement before you deny their links.
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I ended up doing up a TOS violation with Google and they shut that particular page down.
 
I've tried the search and Google claims to have found approx 501 instances of one of my images being used. I've posted a couple below - is it worth trying to invoice them?

edit - removed the links on advice from Dave below...
 
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Hi Steve first thing I would do is remove all the links and your image, from your Post,they are all going to get lots of hits and be alerted, as they will be able to see where the hits are coming from, and read this thread, and remove the images before you get time to gather your evidence, so do it immediately, then get screen shots and bookmark all the pages, send them all an invoice as they are all your image
 
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Thanks Dave - links removed on your advice. Now I just need to work out how much I should invoice them for. Are there any guidelines on this sort of thing anywhere?

Apologies for my naivety - i'm just an amateur snapper and never thought any of my images would have any commercial value!

God bless Google (sometimes...)!
 
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