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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Hey you, Photo-Stealer -- STOP!

So you've come back, photo stealer from Champaign, IL. You came back 3 times since I've reopened my blog. I figured you would, but I did NOT figure that you'd have the audacity to take more photos. Ever heard of "do unto others..."? What gives? Why would you do something that is so blatantly illegal?

So, you took more photos of me and D. The only ones I left up. Just know that I paid to have your personal info tracked and I heard only 2 days ago that they had a successful dig. I'll have your name, address and phone number tomorrow. Don't worry -I don't plan to use it .....unless you continue to steal. So, STOP!

I guess I need to go back and censor my blog even more for the time being. Don't people like this KNOW that 'what goes around comes around?" You are in for a big surprise if you continue to steal my photos.
Posted by Keri at 7:33 PM

16 comments:

  1. Seriously?

    Seriously, photo-snatcher. Uncool. What could your motivation possibly be?

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  2. I can't believe he came back! (or she) Crazyyy!

    Anyways, I'm the 14 year old who posted on your blog a while ago.. I asked if you do anything for the environment.. Well I just started a blog! Just thought I would tell you :)

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  3. Absolutely ridiculous! Ugh I hope they get what is coming to them!

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  4. ...Seriously? Ugh. Leave well enough alone, please, Illinois.

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  5. :( I'd call the police in his town! Creepy!! :(

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  6. Have you thought of watermarking your photos?

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  7. How in the world do you know that this person is saving copies of the photos on the website? Is this something Blogger is telling you?

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  8. Keri, that is nuts! How can you tell when someone steals your photos?

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  9. Watermarks really would mar Keri's blog, I feel...probably using low-res (which should be used anyway) is a good protection - the images will look good here but will download very small and kind of crappy. There is also Javascript that disables the "right-click-download" method but I'm not sure it will run on Blogspot, where you don't control everything yourself. Or making the images background in tables (pain to do) or slicing them up in a photo editor and putting them back together in the HTML (huge, huge pain.) We need a simple solution!

    Like, hey: STOP DOING THIS, PHOTO-STEALER!

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  11. Yuck yuck!! Can't believe they'd be so brazen as to return!! Watermarking and low resolution-ing are draconian but might just keep the evildoer at bay!!

    Ps do you have a friend who is a lawyer or paralegal? Maybe theycould write a scary cease and desist letter to said evildoer??

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  12. Jen, the program I pay for ( stat counter plus) tells me. , for example, it tells me that you visited today at 10:01 am and downloaded that photo of Nastia in the butterfly sleeveless shirt, when she was 12. I am guessing you did that to see if indeed it was recorded . ( Other readers, Jen is an IRL friend, so I guessed right away why she downloaded the photo today...she is WAY more tech-knowledgeable than I am!) I follow the stats a few times a week...how people find my site, what they read, what they download, etc.

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  14. Publicizing the stealer's name would sure put an end to this!

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  15. Yikes, we have had the Chapaigne Illinois person on our blog too several times looking at pictures. I had no idea they could be taking them.....

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  16. I'm an adoptive parent with a little girl from Russia as well (a lot younger than your daughter...only 5 yrs old almost 6) and I've only posted a few pictures to my blog. I get SO nervous that someone will download them for the wrong reason. I uploaded a few pictures right after we arrived home, but since then I haven't posted any and I love photography, have a really nice expensive camera and have taken classes. It's horrible. I have friends who watermark their photos, but still...that doesn't stop them from downloading them, they just can't use them professionally. I wish I could upload more pictures but I worry to much and I don't want to secure my blog. Good luck finding out who it is. I'd love to know how to track who downloads from your blog. I should probably check my own and I'm semi tech savvy, but not this much. I think the person you're using for your adoption is probably the same person (from a warm weather climate here in the US) that we used for our adoption. She's great BTW. Good luck. Really hope you're able to stop this person from downloading your pictures. I wish Blogger would do something to keep people from downloading photos from other people's blogs.

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