Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Find one scam and you will find another
As you may or may not know we run a little plus size dress business called www.berkswelldirect.com and we are an authorizedUK retailer for Calito .
Well things have been a little slow on the business front and before blaming the weather I took a look through my website activity logs and low and behold some ebayer has been linking to my L'Amour Satin fabric pictures. I'm really quite proud of just how good they originally came out. However using my pictures is bad enough, but stealing my bandwidth too is a kick in teeth.
So I've had to modify the pictures
to include a Copyright image, which sort of ruins the look, but other than disabling linking entirely there is not a lot I can do really.
If I disabled linking I wouldn't be able to put the picture up here for a start and to be honest its quite nice when someone uses a picture to illustrate our wares on a blog or forum. I'm sure it makes some difference to peoples awareness if not exactly to our sales.
I had thought of going for a real sabotage job with a few choice pictures of porn or a monkeys backside, but maybe a more subtle way might be the way to go.
When I research further I found that the person stealing my bandwidth is also stealing bandwidth from at least 35 other websites as well as their designs and pictures. Tends to be the case with what I can only assume are Chinese manufacturers. I'm not a great advocate of copyright, but when people blatantly try to make money on your hard work and pass if off as their own without any sort of acknowledgement then I think it goes beyond any light hearted personal use it is just stealing plain and simple and the police should take it as seriously as other crime.
Well things have been a little slow on the business front and before blaming the weather I took a look through my website activity logs and low and behold some ebayer has been linking to my L'Amour Satin fabric pictures. I'm really quite proud of just how good they originally came out. However using my pictures is bad enough, but stealing my bandwidth too is a kick in teeth.
So I've had to modify the pictures
to include a Copyright image, which sort of ruins the look, but other than disabling linking entirely there is not a lot I can do really.If I disabled linking I wouldn't be able to put the picture up here for a start and to be honest its quite nice when someone uses a picture to illustrate our wares on a blog or forum. I'm sure it makes some difference to peoples awareness if not exactly to our sales.
I had thought of going for a real sabotage job with a few choice pictures of porn or a monkeys backside, but maybe a more subtle way might be the way to go.
When I research further I found that the person stealing my bandwidth is also stealing bandwidth from at least 35 other websites as well as their designs and pictures. Tends to be the case with what I can only assume are Chinese manufacturers. I'm not a great advocate of copyright, but when people blatantly try to make money on your hard work and pass if off as their own without any sort of acknowledgement then I think it goes beyond any light hearted personal use it is just stealing plain and simple and the police should take it as seriously as other crime.
