Photos are being stolen from SM Here

jfriend

SamirD wrote: »

The galleries are linked from my main web site, and it is highly public. Still nothing.

They may have specifically crawled sites known for images (like Smugmug) from which they cannot find your images. They may not know about your main site which would lead to your images.

David_S85

They show 11 of mine. I'm not going to include the link to them again, as it will just increase their traffic even more.

EDIT: Only nine are mine. How they link the other two to my username is a mystery. Oh well. Odd "search site" it is. I wonder what they're really up to.

nipprdog

nipprdog

nipprdog wrote: »

So much for that. I just found 8 of my images there.

CWSkopec

Sam wrote: »

Now I feel like a complete failure...................not one of my images is worthy of theft......cry:cry

Sam

Sam, don't feel bad... If I was the type of person to do it, I would happily steal a number of your images!

On a more serious note, they've got a whole bunch of my images, most from flickr and most are super low res. Those that are of decent web viewing res, have my watermark (old one on flickr) on them. While I wish their image search linked back to my site properly, since the photos are low res or watermarked, I'm not overly worried that they're actaully making money off them

Ken K

All the images that had been taken down in response to my DMCA notice are back up. However, now when I click on a thumbnail it links directly to the image in my NatureScapes portfolio or in the case of my SmugMug portfolio to my home page.

BTW, if you search on SmugMug you get 5,691,231 thumbnail results!

Ken

pmbpro

jfriend wrote: »

I'll amend what I said earlier. They appear to be an image search site, but they are not linking back to our actually gallery pages like they should.

Actually, John, at that photosimagen site, when I type in "pmbimages", I see my thumbnails and when I click on my thumbnails, it takes me right back to my Smugmug site's Home page (in the lower frame)! Clicking on my thumbnail in the upper frame doesn't "get" them anything larger though), but my URL is there next to it.

I'm getting a link-back as you'd originally said, to my Home page with the slide show.

kd2

I just found nine of my image on there. When I did a search a few days ago, none were on there. Now I'm part of the stolen club. And like others have said, if you click on an image, it goes to my home page.

mannytkd

It looks the site has been suspended??

kd2

It's still up. In fact, I typed in the name of several photographer friends and also some more "well-known" photographers in the industry. They all have photos on there, too.

DJKennedy

I noticed at least two of my images on that site actually link you to dgrin :P

KMCC

If the site was suspended, it didn't remain suspended for very long. All of my images are still being shown in spite of my submission of the DMCA notice.

T-photos

I don't have time right now to read all of the comments, but I posted similar thread about 5 a.m. this morning when I discovered my locked, passworded unlisted galleries being accessed. It's odd as I haven't really paid much attention to my smug lately, but another smug user asked me if I had any sales through here and I said no and they wondered why not since I am able to sell other places, then I find the 'baidu' and other links to my images and it's just disturbing that I pay good money but no protection here at all. I love my smugmug and doubt I'll ever leave. But I will just have to be more careful I guess and limit what I put online. I just thought my private galleries were private.