Image Thieves

dbvirago

Checking my stats, I get daily hits from these and others. Almost every image on all sites are stolen from varioius smugmug accounts.

wiki1.b-l-u-e-p-r-i-n-t-s.com
7


wiki1.a-c-c-o-u-n-t-a-n-t.com
2
wiki1.h-e-a-v-y-m-a-c-h-i-n-e-r-y.com
2

2

2


wiki1.b-u-t-t-e-r.com
1
wiki1.c-o-n-t-i-n-e-n-t-a-l.com
1
wiki1.t-a-x-i-c-a-b.com
1
wiki1.l-u-x-u-r-y-c-a-r.com

Andy

Can you show me an image on your SmugMug site that was lifted?

dbvirago

I have deleted the three I found today to break their links.

And looking at the sites, a lot of others have too.

I will watch over the next day or two and give you another link.

mbrady

I've seen a few similar sites in my logs also. Just a seemingly random word as the URL, but with dashes in between each letter. The sites themselves are terrible, I'm not even quite sure what they're for. They almost seem like Google link bait or something, they don't seem to make any sense and don't appear to be selling anything and most of the content seems random. Odd.

River Eye Photography

I'd be cautious about these sites. If they look like "Google linkbait" they may be trying to lure users' CPU's to their virii.

Remember: the virus *MAKERS* are always -- ALWAYS! -- ahead of the AntiVirus makers; the AV folks can't write their virus-defs 'til they have working examples of a new virus (though sometimes a "modified" virus comes out that's still caught by the definition for the original).