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Friday, January 29, 2010

Happy New Year!

I know, January is done and now is when I'm doing this. Well, you see, I had taken a little break. Even from things photography. And try and engage the technical side of my brain a bit. But I hadn't completely abandoned it. Still did a few jobs, some of them with great pictures resulting. As soon as they are processed, I will share.

Part of my launch into the technical got me reviewing my site. I need to change a few things about it. While in the process of researching and finding out who got to my site and how they did, I came across two sites that were shown as referrers. Yet when I went to the sites, I didn't see any links to mine.

Scrolling to the bottom of the sites, I saw my images on there. Complete with watermark. At first I thought they had taken the images and copy pasted, but on refreshing the images changed. Still mine. Looking at the source code, it turns out the site owners just copy pasted my code that rotates images right on there, and they get to use my images free without my knowledge!







What a way to start the year. Hopefully there won't be any more such crazy surprises in store for me.



2 comments:

M said...

Do you host your site yourself? I know of a simple way to stop this sort of nonsense.

egm said...

M


The rotate.php code and images are on a host on which I have control. Do share!