After making my initial post I did some digging around this site. It seems that member has been stealing pictures and posting them here for quite some time.
Then again the picture was taken in Canada and it’s not that great of a picture in the first place.
The person posting the photos may be a kid who was linking them to the aircraft number, without consideration of international copyright laws.
FA staff is good about addressing this issue. Ask nicely next time without the edge and they might throw in a couple weeks free subscription to Flightaware.
Well he could be but I doubt it. A thief is a a thief in my books. It would be very easy for the Admin of this site to send him an e-mail and inform him what he is doing is against the law. Then give him the option to delete any and all photos he hasn’t taken. From what I can see in the other thread I mentioned they haven’t done that as of yet. I could be wrong and if I am then I apologize.
I did ask nicely. What would you like me to do? Get on bended knee and beg. I’m not the first one he has done this to nor will I be the last.
As far as a free subscription is concerned it isn’t something I would be interested in at this point. Why you ask? It seems to me the policing is quite lax when it comes to issues of this sort. If the admin disables his account, blocks his IP address and removes all of his uploads I might reconsider a membership, which btw I don’t mind paying for if and when I like a site.
By not doing the above three mentions things this site is doing a great disservice to it’s honest members. Keep in mind that a lot of individuals spend their precious time and hard earned money to capture shots and post them to this and other sites. Most do so without any expectation of a reward other than to be given proper credit for a shot. Without their efforts sites like this wouldn’t be around.
Allen pointed out my joke re: free subscription to a free service. I wasn’t joking about your picture quality. It’s not that great of a picture, especially for getting all worked up over it. It’s blurred, poor color, terrible light and the subject is a filthy PC-12.
Nor was I when I pointed that out in my initial post. See point #2 in case you missed it. Is this a critique forum? If it is I’ll cancel my paid subscriptions to a few that I belong to.
As you stated earlier, you don’t know when the upload was done? Do you know something wasn’t already done?
We of course don’t know if the remaining pictures that were uploaded by the offending user are infringing on copyrights until the rightful owner steps up to the plate. In otherwords, innocent until proven guilty, which really should apply in this case.
We don’t know if the IP address has been banned. (as stated earlier, this doesn’t guarantee repeat offenders from doing this again as there are many work arounds on this)
I don’t need to rehash of course the need to alert the administrators.
System not perfect, but at least there is some recourse in place for YOU to protect your rights.
You do realize that this is a public discussion forum pertaining to aviation in general and has nothing whatsoever to do with the photos page other than being hosted on the same server?
Whining to us about your purloined photos is ineffective at best and annoying at worst. It was suggested that you contact the owners of the site about the matter to have your concerns addressed, but apparently you’d rather bitch about the matter rather than seek a remedy, which is your right.
I didn’t have any intention of starting a war when I posted at this site. It was done to bring a serious matter to the admins. attention. As previously stated I wasn’t aware of the ongoing thread about this thief until after my initial post.
The admin dept of this site could find that out very quickly. That’s the reason I advised of my upload date.
Hence my suggestion that an admin e-mail the thief. IMO that should have taken place ages ago. If it was done the admin should have made mention in the other thread. That dissolves the guesswork doesn’t it?
Once again… If it was done the admin should have made mention in the other thread. That dissolves the guesswork doesn’t it?
From what I’ve seen they would remove his copy. That would be nice but the question begs to be answered. Do I have to search this site for every one of my shots and when I find 'em ask they be removed. The guy has already been proven a thief so it’s time to do the site and it’s members a favor. Disable his account and ban his IP address.
