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  • faxxaff
    Confirmed User
    • Dec 2002
    • 2134
    #1

    Content Thieves

    I know there is not much a webmaster can do if some members steal pix and post them to newsgroups. However, I was wondering if there is a possibility to sue websites that republish pics that were taken from newsgroups such as:

    http://www.usenetbinaries.com

    There must be way to nail the owners/webmasters of this fucking site!!!
    Asian Babes
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    • Stallion
      Confirmed User
      • Jan 2001
      • 6632
      #2
      I am not a lawyer but in this day and world, one can sue anyone for just about anything.
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        • Trax
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          • Aug 2001
          • 14486
          #3
          yep
          usenet = public domain

          its always been like that

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            • Trax
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              • Aug 2001
              • 14486
              #4
              http://www.usenetbinaries.com/doc/Copyright.html

              thats my all time favorite

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                • bopha
                  Confirmed User
                  • Sep 2002
                  • 1882
                  #5
                  What exactly is public domain. I thought that was all bullshit.

                  I thougth that only applied to celebs.

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                    • Trax
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                      • Aug 2001
                      • 14486
                      #6
                      Originally posted by bopha
                      What exactly is public domain. I thought that was all bullshit.

                      I thougth that only applied to celebs.

                      IT IS ALL BULLSHIT
                      no offence
                      look at their terms and policies lol

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                        • Burtman
                          Registered User
                          • Feb 2001
                          • 484
                          #7
                          I used to report all stolen content submitted to my tgp to the various affiliate programs that it was being ripped from. Some were quite thankful but alot of them didn't give a shit because the Watermaked pics equals free advertising.

                          Burtman

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                            • EZRhino
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jul 2003
                              • 6258
                              #8
                              Tell them to

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                                • Nightwork
                                  Registered User
                                  • Oct 2003
                                  • 61
                                  #9
                                  faxxaff,

                                  I think you can't blame the owners/webmasters of these sites for anything. They just offering a service, it's the users that abuse the services and it's quite impossible for parties offering such services to scan all the content.

                                  The effort you have to put in to track down stealing users is a waste of time in my opinion. And I believe the best thing is to see content stealing as a 'compliment', just be sure that your content contains your urls and it even can be free advertisement ;)

                                  There might be some options to make contenttheft harder (or easier to track down the guilty members), but I have to look a little more into the subject to see if it's an option to use in a real life production environment.

                                  If someone's interested in this, I'll put some time into it.
                                  God may have created the world in 6 days, but you can bet your ass that while he rested on the 7th, a programmer coded it all.<br>ICQ:48322442

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                                    • bignasty
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Nov 2003
                                      • 1421
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by bopha
                                      What exactly is public domain. I thought that was all bullshit.

                                      I thougth that only applied to celebs.
                                      Public domain includes all creative works not protected by copyright. After a certain amount of time copyrights expire. For more on this check out http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
                                      '

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