You could try, "artscottfotografie.com" or "artscottfotografie", "Scott fotografie", "Scott fotografie dgrin", any combination with words longer then 3 letters.
Ahhhhh.... I always separate the words.......I never even thought of searching as if it were the actual web address.......Thanks
Ziggy only the forum is gone......the links on that page go to forums in what looks like Arabichuh.......so with out knowing how to read it and write in it...we can't search it to see if the same thing is going on the forums that are linked to.......scratchdunno
Ziggy only the forum is gone......the links on that page go to forums in what looks like Arabichuh.......so with out knowing how to read it and write in it...we can't search it to see if the same thing is going on the forums that are linked to.......scratchdunno
You can use a translation service if you wish to read the pages but I do not believe that any rampant copying of our images or messages is still occurring.
Feel free to search the site for your content as before if you wish. Searching for your images would not be affected by another language.
Ziggy only the forum is gone......the links on that page go to forums in what looks like Arabichuh.......so with out knowing how to read it and write in it...we can't search it to see if the same thing is going on the forums that are linked to.......scratchdunno
The forum was taken down, your clicking on a link to a totally different forum. This other forum is not copying our images, so all is good.
The problem seems to have been totally taken care of
They're back
I was doing some idle Googling and discovered that en.jo1jo.com is back and doing exactly the same scam--wholesale copying and reposting from Dgrin and other Internet forums. Twenty two of my posts were copied, starting in May and continuing up to a couple of days ago. I didn't look, but I have no doubt that many others have been copied as well.
As before, the domain is registered in Jordan, though the data have changed a bit:
REGISTRANT CONTACT INFO
mohammad alhoatat
mohammad alhoatat
jordan / amman
sweileh 11910 POBox 973
amman
amman
00962
JO
Phone: +962.00962788216091
They have a new hosting service in Las Vegas:
IP: 208.64.28.165
Name Versaweb, LLC
Handle VERSA14
Street 1110 Palms Airport Dr
Suite 110
City Las Vegas
State/Province NV
Postal Code 89119
Country US
Registration Date 2010-07-29
Last Updated 2011-05-03
Comments Please send all abuse reports to our listed Abuse POC. Abuse reports sent to other contacts will not be processed.
RESTful Link http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/VERSA14
Referral Server rwhois://rwhois.versaweb.com:4321
Phone +1-702-518-9999 (Office)
Edit: This is a long thread, so for the benefit of the lazy, this site is reposting stuff from Dgrin. If you want to find out whether your pics have been reposted, go to en.jo1jo.com/vb2 and do a search on your Web site name. That will pick up your pics that they have embedded.
Guess I am lucky this time around or the filter for that keeps saying my 1st name is too short or too common is stopping me from finding my pix.....Hmmmmm
Edit...seems that I am on there also.....and it seems that there are posts from back when it was shut down the last time....none of my pix are showing up...but the posts are there with pic title and description but no image...so I must have broke the links the last time......I cannot believe this person....and it is weird how the only reples are a repost of the text part of my posts...like some sort of bot..........
Guess I am lucky this time around or the filter for that keeps saying my 1st name is too short or too common is stopping me from finding my pix.....Hmmmmm
Edit...seems that I am on there also.....and it seems that there are posts from back when it was shut down the last time....none of my pix are showing up...but the posts are there with pic title and description but no image...so I must have broke the links the last time......I cannot believe this person....and it is weird how the only reples are a repost of the text part of my posts...like some sort of bot..........
The username divid on that forum has 136,198 posts since 5/11/10, roughly 474 posts/day. Global stats for the site are: Threads: 862,751, Posts: 862,757, meaning there have been all of six replies!
Easier said than done, I'm afraid. We only know the IP address of the server, but the machines that are doing the harvesting from Dgrin will likely be using different addresses. All they look like to us are guests viewing a thread, so I don't know how we could identify them.
Last time we saw these guys, we were successful in getting the hosting service to shut them down, and we can probably do it again if everyone will just send their documented complaints to the abuse address above.
Can't their access to Smugmug be blocked? Seems like that was done for something else like this a while back....
They aren't accessing SmugMug, but are simply copying the links that appear in Dgrin posts. It's your own browser that actually requests the image from SmugMug when it renders the page.
They aren't accessing SmugMug, but are simply copying the links that appear in Dgrin posts. It's your own browser that actually requests the image from SmugMug when it renders the page.
not .............
it also displays original text
not from SmugMug but from DGrin
This letter is official notification under the provisions of Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) to effect removal of the above-reported infringements. I request that you immediately issue a cancellation message as specified in RFC 1036 for the specified postings and prevent the infringer, who is identified by its Web address, from posting the infringing photographs to your servers in the future. Please be advised that law requires you, as a service provider, to “expeditiously remove or disable access to” the infringing photographs upon receiving this notice. Noncompliance may result in a loss of immunity for liability under the DMCA.
I have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of here is not authorized by me, the copyright holder, or the law. The information provided here is accurate to the best of my knowledge. I swear under penalty of perjury that I am the copyright holder.
Please send me at the address noted below a prompt response indicating the actions you have taken to resolve this matter.
Sincerely, ... (my full legal name and dominant e-mail address)"
Anyone can feel free to copy my quoted e-mail text but be sure to change the offending link to one that is pertinent to yourself and then add your full legal name and a reliable e-mail contact address.
Ziggy that email looks almost like the one I sent with the exception that I had 8 links to the original post on Dgrin and also the 8 offending posts........
I looked over the sight and there were very few other posters and it seemed all links I clicked on took me to the same sight in Arabic..............
Nope missed that one.......I had 8 last night that I could find...........
I know the last time this happened and I said the links on the sight went to arabic forums that I was told the arabic forums are not the problem......think I may send message to Awais and have him look it over...I, ofcourse do not read Arabic so cannot search the linked forums...but it could be they are related to each other...this jo1jo and the Arabic forums that is................
As mentioned above, jo1jo.com is registered in Jordan and hosted in Las Vegas by Versaweb, LLC. Our stuff is appearing in the English language section of the site, en.jo1jo.com, but the main landing page is Arabic. If you want to know what's there, just use Google language tools to translate the page--all you need to supply is the URL. I wonder whether they're stealing the Arabic content as well. Wouldn't surprise me.
In the meantime, I have received no acknowledgment of my complaint from Versaweb and the infringing content is still online. Has anyone gotten any response yet?
understood
but , if they get kicked off of the web ,
they change the name and or IPaddress and they are back again
what i dont understand is , WHY
linking to some beautiful photo's , understood
but , copying entire forums is weird
I'm not an expert, but I think what they're doing is marketing their "forum" to advertisers, who pay based upon traffic and clicks. If the forum appears to be active, with lots of participants and regular activities/posts, it appeals to advertisers because of the perceived exposure. If these hackers have figured out a way to automate the replication of a linked forum's real activity, they can collect advertising revenue without any of the responsibility/work of the real forum site.
Tony P. Canon 50D, 30D and Digital Rebel (plus some old friends - FTB and AE1) Long-time amateur.....wishing for more time to play Autocross and Track junkie tonyp.smugmug.com
The following site is some sort of scam. It uses a crawler or bot to illegally copy content from other Vbulletin sites and post it as its own, probably so the owner can make revenue from per-click advertising by falsely inflating his click-throughs. One of the sites it steals content from is yours.
The service provider who hosts the site is a Las Vegas-based company called Versaweb. To have your stolen content removed, you must send them an email informing them that they are in violation of the DMCA and requesting removal. Their contact address is admin@versaweb.com
I am sending this to as many their victim forums as I can, in the hope that, if they get enough complaints, Versaweb will block the site's ability to steal content from other sites.
I sent it to these sites, which all have "member names" in the scam site's member list:
ai-stockmarketforum.com
anandtech.com
beyond3d.com
chiefdelphi.com
cityofheroes.com
conceptart.org
deeperblue.com
freebsd.org
iphonedevsdk.com
johnstonefitness.com
majorgeeks.com
overclockers.com
physicsforums.com
realestatewebmasters.com
runesofmagic.com
steampowered.com
tantalk.com
tdiclub.com
tunisia.com
Maybe this will stir up some trouble for the scammer.
What I said when I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time: "The wide ain't wide enough and the zoom don't zoom enough!"
Comments
Ahhhhh.... I always separate the words.......I never even thought of searching as if it were the actual web address.......Thanks
Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
You can use a translation service if you wish to read the pages but I do not believe that any rampant copying of our images or messages is still occurring.
Feel free to search the site for your content as before if you wish. Searching for your images would not be affected by another language.
Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
The forum was taken down, your clicking on a link to a totally different forum. This other forum is not copying our images, so all is good.
The problem seems to have been totally taken care of
I was doing some idle Googling and discovered that en.jo1jo.com is back and doing exactly the same scam--wholesale copying and reposting from Dgrin and other Internet forums. Twenty two of my posts were copied, starting in May and continuing up to a couple of days ago. I didn't look, but I have no doubt that many others have been copied as well.
As before, the domain is registered in Jordan, though the data have changed a bit:
Registrar: Spot Domain LLC
Expiration Date: 2012-08-28 12:57:29
Creation Date: 2006-08-28 12:57:29
Name Servers:
ns3.almnarh.com
ns4.almnarh.com
REGISTRANT CONTACT INFO
mohammad alhoatat
mohammad alhoatat
jordan / amman
sweileh 11910 POBox 973
amman
amman
00962
JO
Phone: +962.00962788216091
IP: 208.64.28.165
Handle VERSA14
Street 1110 Palms Airport Dr
Suite 110
City Las Vegas
State/Province NV
Postal Code 89119
Country US
Registration Date 2010-07-29
Last Updated 2011-05-03
Comments Please send all abuse reports to our listed Abuse POC. Abuse reports sent to other contacts will not be processed.
RESTful Link http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/VERSA14
Referral Server rwhois://rwhois.versaweb.com:4321
Phone +1-702-518-9999 (Office)
Email abusereports@versaweb.com
Edit: This is a long thread, so for the benefit of the lazy, this site is reposting stuff from Dgrin. If you want to find out whether your pics have been reposted, go to en.jo1jo.com/vb2 and do a search on your Web site name. That will pick up your pics that they have embedded.
Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
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Guess I am lucky this time around or the filter for that keeps saying my 1st name is too short or too common is stopping me from finding my pix.....Hmmmmm
Edit...seems that I am on there also.....and it seems that there are posts from back when it was shut down the last time....none of my pix are showing up...but the posts are there with pic title and description but no image...so I must have broke the links the last time......I cannot believe this person....and it is weird how the only reples are a repost of the text part of my posts...like some sort of bot..........
found 13 of my posts too
and a lot of others
/ɯoɔ˙ƃnɯƃnɯs˙ʇlɟsɐq//:dʇʇɥ
did you see this crap ?
http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=285676
/ɯoɔ˙ƃnɯƃnɯs˙ʇlɟsɐq//:dʇʇɥ
http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=580526
/ɯoɔ˙ƃnɯƃnɯs˙ʇlɟsɐq//:dʇʇɥ
Think it might be a bot?
could be , or else its a wierdo
it or he should be stopped or blocked from DGrin
edit
its a bot allright
/ɯoɔ˙ƃnɯƃnɯs˙ʇlɟsɐq//:dʇʇɥ
Last time we saw these guys, we were successful in getting the hosting service to shut them down, and we can probably do it again if everyone will just send their documented complaints to the abuse address above.
but , if they get kicked off of the web ,
they change the name and or IPaddress and they are back again
what i dont understand is , WHY
linking to some beautiful photo's , understood
but , copying entire forums is weird
/ɯoɔ˙ƃnɯƃnɯs˙ʇlɟsɐq//:dʇʇɥ
it also displays original text
not from SmugMug but from DGrin
/ɯoɔ˙ƃnɯƃnɯs˙ʇlɟsɐq//:dʇʇɥ
i know sites with much lesser quality then DGrin , and they use it
[ dont know if it will stop idiots like this Divid dude ]
/ɯoɔ˙ƃnɯƃnɯs˙ʇlɟsɐq//:dʇʇɥ
I just forwarded yesterday's e-mail with the DMCA takedown notice request additionally to:
admin@versaweb.com
attn: Rob Tyree (the admin contact name.)
I also BCCd some "interested parties". I would like to be civil but I hate being ignored on matters like this.
The exact content of my e-mail:
"Copyright Claim
To Versaweb.com:
I am the copyright owner of one of the photographs being infringed at:
http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2
... specifically the image at:
http://en.jo1jo.com/vb2/showthread.php?t=580526
This letter is official notification under the provisions of Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) to effect removal of the above-reported infringements. I request that you immediately issue a cancellation message as specified in RFC 1036 for the specified postings and prevent the infringer, who is identified by its Web address, from posting the infringing photographs to your servers in the future. Please be advised that law requires you, as a service provider, to “expeditiously remove or disable access to” the infringing photographs upon receiving this notice. Noncompliance may result in a loss of immunity for liability under the DMCA.
I have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of here is not authorized by me, the copyright holder, or the law. The information provided here is accurate to the best of my knowledge. I swear under penalty of perjury that I am the copyright holder.
Please send me at the address noted below a prompt response indicating the actions you have taken to resolve this matter.
Sincerely, ... (my full legal name and dominant e-mail address)"
Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
I looked over the sight and there were very few other posters and it seemed all links I clicked on took me to the same sight in Arabic..............
Nope missed that one.......I had 8 last night that I could find...........
I know the last time this happened and I said the links on the sight went to arabic forums that I was told the arabic forums are not the problem......think I may send message to Awais and have him look it over...I, ofcourse do not read Arabic so cannot search the linked forums...but it could be they are related to each other...this jo1jo and the Arabic forums that is................
In the meantime, I have received no acknowledgment of my complaint from Versaweb and the infringing content is still online. Has anyone gotten any response yet?
I'm not an expert, but I think what they're doing is marketing their "forum" to advertisers, who pay based upon traffic and clicks. If the forum appears to be active, with lots of participants and regular activities/posts, it appeals to advertisers because of the perceived exposure. If these hackers have figured out a way to automate the replication of a linked forum's real activity, they can collect advertising revenue without any of the responsibility/work of the real forum site.
Canon 50D, 30D and Digital Rebel (plus some old friends - FTB and AE1)
Long-time amateur.....wishing for more time to play
Autocross and Track junkie
tonyp.smugmug.com
However, I did send the following notification to multiple sites that the scammer is stealing from:
I sent it to these sites, which all have "member names" in the scam site's member list:
ai-stockmarketforum.com
anandtech.com
beyond3d.com
chiefdelphi.com
cityofheroes.com
conceptart.org
deeperblue.com
freebsd.org
iphonedevsdk.com
johnstonefitness.com
majorgeeks.com
overclockers.com
physicsforums.com
realestatewebmasters.com
runesofmagic.com
steampowered.com
tantalk.com
tdiclub.com
tunisia.com
Maybe this will stir up some trouble for the scammer.