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Originally Posted by mholtum

All I am saying is, as my grandmother used to say, "You can catch more flies with sugar than vinagar."

mholtum, I removed your website from thsi thread but if you want to keep arguing over it then please, I will keep talking about you. Not only did you copy the images off of my site (or someone supposedly sold them to you) you copied some of my add banners (the "Got Awards?" one) and even the text for the actual awards... ALL FROM MY SITE!!!

Get the hell out of here. You dont have a leg to stand on so stop now. I apologized to you for the actions I took but next ime dont copy, its that simple.

Originally Posted by Gary Bolton

I did read the thread, every single post. And I still think it's a bit OTT really, no offense intended.

You can't really have images installed on your site, that are not hotlink protected. And expect that people will not use them after finding them in google image search. I've seen this argument many times on other sites about images. The bottom line is this, if you don't want others using them. You should watermark them and enable hotlink protection right from the very word go.

If your just going to upload them without watermarks, and also not even enable hotlink protection so there not advertised in Google images for anybody to use and get. I really don't see your complaint to be honest, you've left yourself wide open. There could be a thousand other sites out there by now using your images that your totally un-aware off.

I once knew a guy who created fantastic banner logo's, he went on to create header logos for cash for businesses. The same happened to him. He uploaded demo's without watermarks. And everybody used them. He had the same argument as this thread. But everybody told him it was his own silly mistake for not watermarking them as demo's.

Gary, your a genious. Really? Hotlinkiing protection? What an amazing idea.... I had it but now that I was looking it wasnt turned off I had ignorantly overwritten the htaccess for that entire directory when I installed VBSEO. Is it my fault for not protecting the page? Yeah but is is still illegal to copy someones work and pass it off as your own? HELL YES.

What about people downloading hacks from this site and reposting else where as their own? They werent protected where they? You seriously need to look up Copyright in the dictionary. Otherwise all those lawyers for the movie industry must be wrong.

Originally Posted by mholtum

If hotlinking was the issue there would be no reason for this thread or any of the other things the OP did in his "quest" as he could have fixed that issue in about 2 minutes.

Hotlinking is an ethical issue not a legal one if I am not mistaken.

If you would not have copied the images or the award text then there wouldnt have been a problem. And yes, look it up, its a legal isssue.