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[joflasher]

Stupid art theives...
http://www.photocasket.com/

Quite a bit work by Nene, Royo, Jessica Galbreth, Linda Bergkvist and Ruth Thomson on there. There's also a lot of art I recognise but don't "know" right off the top of my head. Pass the link along if you have contact info for any of these people...

Edit - Michele, there's one of yours in the Fairies area, somewhere around #137.

Comments

[flasher.livejournal.com]

I didn't think you allowed people to add sparklies and such to your stuff ...

[freeptop.livejournal.com]

Is this page just new, or did you miss their "Copyright Issues" page?
http://www.photocasket.com/copyright.html

Granted, it is still pretty scummy to go ahead and steal art, and then say, "well, if you happen to notice that we stole your art, you can jump through these hoops to get us to take it down."

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Saw that issues page, which is completely ass-backwards. Its not on me to jump through hoops to protect my copyright, it should be on them to check and make sure they aren't breaking the law in the first place. That thing will never stand up in court ... which it won't get to since I have their host provider who, like every host provider, disallows this sort of thing in their user contract. Contacting the host should get the site shutdown since hosts really dislike cease&desist letters from Disney (someone else they are ripping off).

[freeptop.livejournal.com]

I agree it's ass-backwards; I posted the link because it was the closest I came to finding any sort of contact info, though.

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Thanks for checking. Someone from deviantart let me know that some of my stuff was on there, so now I have to go "argh" at the host provider and see how long it takes them to do something.

[red-haired-girl.livejournal.com]

Okay, so doing some whois research, we find that they are registered through:
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2599

They have a strict copyright policy, here
http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/LegalAgreement.aspx

I suggest you all call them up and bitch about their customer.

Also

[red-haired-girl.livejournal.com]

hmm, curiouser and curiouser. A traceroute to that IP address (64.27.6.45 or
64.27.6.44)
goes all over the place on level3.net, but ends at ANOTHER ALIAS for that IP - c45.e-get.net

e-get.net name is registered through
Registrant Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (wkvcflvlyn@whoisprivacyprotect.com)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4256960234
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O e-get.net
Bellevue, WA 98007
US


you could bitch to them, too.