The Reason I Now Watermark My Photos

This is JUST SO WRONG! Makes me want to have NEVER started EVER sharing photos on the Internet. (I mean these are our kids people are stealing here!) These people make me SO angry. Like I said on Twitter, I am SO sad this happened to you:( I hope and pray it never comes to this again.

Water marking is a VERY VERY good idea. I’m going to start doing mine as well, as I have a few already. We all need to who have blogs and such. THESE JERKS!!!

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I’m so glad you replaced the photo. They deserve to have their post screwed up because that is just wrong.

Since I manage a very large web site, I have about 50 people in the company who are content contributors for their specific areas and some of them need constant policing to make sure they’re not using stolen photos. It’s so frustrating to try and explain to them why it’s wrong.

You don’t steal a candy bar off the store shelves, so don’t steal a photograph from another site. Why is that so hard for people to comprehend?

I’ll stop filling your site with my ranting!

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HA haha…great solution. Betcha they don’t try that again.

Yoiu are too funny with the one you replaced it with, you are a brain!

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If your webhost uses CPanel, you probably can ask to have hotlink protection enabled. When I went over my bandwidth limit in January, I asked to have it enabled. Bandwidth costs money!

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What do these HORRIBLE people think they are getting away with? Your solution is HILARIOUS.

I salute you!

Now, I have to go figure how to watermark all my photos…You should do a “how to” post for all us non-experts.

freakin’ hilarious Angella! Go YOU! I’d do the same thing….maybe I should start watermarking mine….dont know how tho! care to advise?
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Wow. This is a new low. Why would someone want to do that?!!

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Ugh, that would make me sick.

I wish I knew how to watermark….

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Rotten Rotten people. Funny Funny Angella–I even let out a little, “Whoo Hoo!” in your honor
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I know it’s not funny when people steal photos, but that’s a pretty dang funny comeback!
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That is just wrong. I am kinda glad she was uncouth enough to hotlink you, so you found the theft!

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Oh my, thats freaky….your response made me laugh though!

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Too funny … well your response is!

I’d love to see what sort of comments they’re getting now. Hope she doesn’t check her blog for a while.

MK xo

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Where was I when this happened? How did you…ugh. All I can say is wow. WOW.

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Okay I have to de-lurk to say I’m really glad you replaced the photo. That’s exactly why I started watermarking my photos too. I don’t have any (human) kids, so it wasn’t quite as big a deal, but still… that’s just wrong!

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Unreal that someone would have the balls to do that. But, your response was hilarious. I LOVE IT!

Wow. Wow. WOW!!!!!!!

I cannot believe that. At all. (I say this, as I quint and quint to see what on earth the screen shot says… )

Your comeback is HILARIOUS!! Cute tuchy! ‘Dumbass’ is one of my favorite name-calling names. Has that dumbass emailed to apologize…?

Hmmmm, thinking of making all my Flickr photos private now…

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So have you had a response from her?

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haha
Yeah, totally making me have second thoughts about my pics.

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Holy crap!!! How did you find that? That is NUTS!!!! I would be so P@$$&^ off!

ARG.

Your solution is BEAUTIFUL. (Or should I say Buttiful???) HEE!

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That’s awful…Kind of scary. I didn’t know that you could go in and change the picture - Great idea though! What was the post about that featured your baby girl? Let’s hope they get the point!

Effin’ a. I’m sorry this happened to you. I felt the same way which is why I never bothered watermarking my images, but now I’m going to watermark EVERYTHING. ARGH. It pisses me off that there are people like this who ruin it for everybody else.

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Holy Shit. I mean, I’ve read of this happening before, Sweet Juniper, Y, etc…
So I watermarked like, two pictures and then stopped because I was all, no one will steal my photos.

Geez Angella, that’s crappy, and I’m sorry someone stole your pictures but your solution is AWESOME!

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Wow, at least they were stupid enough to hotlink so you could find it. And so you could post such an elegant solution!

Were they actually claiming that it was their baby?

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I have to say, though, that your response was hilarious! I’m so sorry this happened though, you think people would know better…

oh my god…i wish i were clever enough to (or ballsy) enough to do what you did.

i heart you.

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Good for you! I love the comment from “Pattie” over on that post now, “what’s up with the buns picture?”

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They were actually claiming Emily was their baby? OH MY GOSH. Good for you. And I hope she AT THE VERY LEAST apologized and saw the error of her ways.

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She wasn’t claiming that Emily was her baby - the photo was used in a post about her yoga instructor falling asleep.

Good for you!!! She just took the picture down while I was reading all this. Dumbass!

Can’t wait to read your watermarking post.

good for you for setting it straight! I can’t help but wonder if the person did it without knowing the ‘rules’ and figured that if it’s watermarked then that would somehow suffice in terms of giving you credit? Just a thought. (I’m always ever so optimistic that people aren’t actually too mean-dumb maybe but not on purpose).

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The original photo was not watermarked - I changed it to a watermarked photo after I found this out.

Yick! That’s particularly horrid and a bit creepy because that is YOUR CHILD! What normal person would steal a picture of YOUR CHILD and use it as their own? I love the bait and switch! Good job, Ang!

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ha, what a great way of handling this!

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OH MY GOD that is so seriously demented. I can’t believe it. Does she even have kids of her own?!? Are they super ugly? Or is she “Hand that rocks the cradle” psycho?

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Sign me up for the watermarking tutorial. I use right click disable, but I need to use watermarks as I know some of my crafty photos were “borrowed”.

That is awesome!
Your pay back I mean, not that she stole your picture! Some people…

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“I know that Jesus said to turn the other cheek. I am just turning two cheeks.”

BuHAHAHAHA. I love you. I love what you did. Awesome.

(p.s. The whole “right click” thing doesn’t work because it’s too easy to go View - Source Code and copy from there. I took my script off because it just slowed page loads and thiefs STILL got my work. Blech.)

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Oh my goodness! I can’t believe some people. A little scary as well…think of some thing good to get even…maybe a scary little lawsuit. : ) Keep us posted as to how you handle it…maybe give us tips on how to watermark our own photos…that would be helpful to me!
Thanks!

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I just updated my right click disable and I know alot of people know how to get past it, but I keep it there just as an added reminder to people. Now I am watermarking everything. What a scummy world

just. aweful. how. rude. who does she think she is?!?! have you heard anythign abck from her..like a sorry!!?!?1 i sure hope so!

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Dude. You rock. Really, that’s all I can say about that.
Thanks for making my day. Secretly I wish you had posted the URL…..but it probably would have resulted in un-Jesus like thoughts and comments….so good-on-ya keeping it a secret.

Absolutely dispicable!!!!! I can’t believe you haven’t found where she lives and gone over for a cup of Tea or a can of Whoop Ass, whichever felt right at the time. I’m glad you watermark! You have beautiful babies, well worth protecting.

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You certainly aren’t the one dodging a lightning bolt!!!!

Great response, makes me wonder about this world sometimes!

That’s horrid!!! Did they claim it was their picture? I couldn’t read the writing around it. That’s SO HORRID! The only pictures I’ve ever taken from a blog were of my niece - and I didn’t post them, I saved them so I could show other people in my family.

That’s so horrid, I’m sorry!!!

ps. I think what you did was awesome. Hehe.

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Great comeback!

Seriously, how stupid can this person be? First, she’s passing off YOUR baby as hers, but she HOTLINKED it too? What a moron.

Just one question. Where’d you get the ass picture?? LOL

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My stomach just turned over. I can’t even imagine. But I’m DEFINITELY

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sorry, I hit something and didn’t finish

as I was saying, I’m DEFINITELY going to be catching your tutorial next week on watermarks.

That is just so sad that someone would do that. As a mom, I feel for you.

[...] of all, thank you for your support on the whole photo thievery issue. I was not sure if I went overboard on my response (even though I giggle whenever I think of it), [...]

It is NOT petty. That’s wrong and STUPID. (hotlinking? Dumbass) I love you even more for replacing the photo.

Now, I expect the link in my inbox by tomorrow morning. OR ELSE.

(Kidding. But also kinda serious.)

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Shitty situation.

Hilarious solution.

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OH MY GOSH!! That’s just awful!! I don’t know how you found the other site, but it scares me a little. I mean, people could be using my photos and I wouldn’t even know. How did you find it?? But I LOVE what you did to “fix” it!!!!

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I did the same exact thing. A photo of Meredith was hotlinked on MySpace. It was a totally innocent, fully clothed shot and the stupid kid was talking about her breasts. WHAT BREASTS.

I contacted MySpace and they said the person wasn’t in violation.
My “replacement” photo had the word pedophile and a$$hole in it.

Yea, I probably could have turned the other cheek too.

So, this person was acting as if Emily was HER baby?

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Good for you!

I first discovered the joy of replacing hotlinked photos about 5 years ago when using eBay and it was common for a new or crooked seller to take another seller’s photos.

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Seriously! What was the post about? Did she actually claim this was her baby? Wouldn’t her family clue in or something? And what was her response to your “feedback”?

sorry, I see you already answered my questions in the comments.

unreal.

Thanks for this insightful post.. I realized how careful you have to be about getting photos from google (My main source for hair cuts and sometimes adding interests to my blog) when I realized how much traffic it was pulling into my blog after posting a photo of a cat I found in google photo search.

I’m the one you’re all calling bad names. I read every one of your posts. I didn’t skip one. In my defense, it had nothing to with the child on a personal level. I didn’t claim she was mine, I didn’t even comment on her. It was just a “sleeping baby” to illustrate a point.

On the other, hand- you’re all right. And I earned the *dumbass*. Thank you for correcting my mistake. I wish I could say that I just didn’t know, but every baby picture is a picture of someone else’s baby. I should have thought and I didn’t. It should make you all feel immensely better that I want to go hold my own head under water for a while.

I’m going to go throw up now.

Oh, and for the record, I’m mortified that most of my site hits are because of this whole fiasco. I would much rather remain in anonymity than have a bunch of justifiably outraged people checking out my indiscretion. So if you wanted to punish me further, you did it the right way.

I’m sorry.
And I’m sorry that I keep leaving all of these comments, but when I find I’ve wronged someone, I can’t let it go until I hear some sort of response back. I’ll continue stewing in my own juices now.

I emailed you to say that we’re cool…

Wow Ange, that sucks. I can’t wait until you do your Foto friday on watermarks. I totally want to start using them. I couldn’t imagine seeing one of my babies on someone elses site.

Dude! I’d be PISSED. Some people have nerve. You get ‘em momma!

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May the lightning miss you because I agree with you.

All they need is ask and give credit - why do they have to steal?

i think I’ll try to learn this watermarking thing … It’s a scary world this internet is…

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You did well in watermarking your pictures, and even better in dealing with that person. The few times that I have used somebody else’s picture to illustrate any of my posts, I went great lengths to make sure that the owner would authorize it first. And even after that, I would download the picture and then upload it again (so I don’t use their bandwidth) and I would make sure to include a caption indicating where I got the picture from. The picture would even have a hyperlink pointing to the original destination.

Any other way you do it, you’re stealing…

Other business: Congratulations on your second place in the Canada Bloggers Award! I will be going through your blog in the next few days, as I’m always open to making new blog buddies!
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I am shocked. WTF?
Sorry for my bad language but seriously? What are you thinking using someone else’s personal photo?

Way to go Angella, I think your actions were justified!

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Angella - I’m just now catching up….I haven’t read blogs in a few days. oh my gosh, I am shocked by all this!!! What I want to know though, is first, how did you find it? You said by your Wordpress board? Was it like a site meter and you were just curious who was looking at your blog? And most importantly, how in the heck, can you change a picture on someone else’s blog?? Is that what you did?

I am assuming she copied and pasted your picture or was she linking to it so you cahnged the picture it was linking to? You know I;m pretty technically challenged, if you hadn’t figured that out!!

Anyway, I was just curious. That is really crappy. To steal a picture of EMILY!!! How could she?

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