Yet another dishonest use of stolen photos...

**artificer** · 25th July 13, 05:18 PM

Sorry to hear this, Matt. But at least you're in good company

- You and Sandy are right there with images stolen from Kinloch Anderson and the now defunct Highland Clans.
They were kind enough to slap their watermark all over Sandy's pic, too.

Thieves suck.

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**Hopper250** · 25th July 13, 05:24 PM

That really sucks, but you did point out a way to spot that they might be stolen images.

**unixken** · 25th July 13, 05:40 PM

In this case, it's easy to spot the photoshopping of the buttons. The buttons on your original photo don't all face "eyes front", squarely at the camera. Several of them show as eliptical in shape, due to perspective.. where as every button on the copy are all front-facing perfect circles lacking any perspective. Just copy/paste jobs. Sloppy.

**OC Richard** · 25th July 13, 07:06 PM

bummer!

I had one of my photos stolen recently. It's a photo of three of my Highland pipes, Highland pipes in three different sizes (Great Highland Bagpipes, "Halfsize or Reel pipes", and Highland smallpipes). It was used by some guy in China (not, in fact, Israel) for a fake Ebay listing. It was hilarious, he had no idea what the photo represented and had a goofy invented description. I and several other pipers contacted Ebay that it was a bogus listing and Ebay pulled it, to their credit. Here it is

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Scottish-Mil...51307690458%26

Here's the original photo, taken (like so many of my photos) on a piece of handwoven Welsh fabric. The Ebay scammer didn't bother to alter the photo at all

**creagdhubh** · 25th July 13, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by artificer

Sorry to hear this, Matt. But at least you're in good company

- You and Sandy are right there with images stolen from Kinloch Anderson and the now defunct Highland Clans.
They were kind enough to slap their watermark all over Sandy's pic, too.

Thieves suck.

ith:

A big plus one!!!

**Father Bill** · 25th July 13, 07:27 PM

Scum always smells.

**RockyR** · 25th July 13, 07:40 PM

I just looked through their site, Matt. I see 5 of our suppliers I can identify quickly that have their products ripped off. They also copied our firefighter kilt pin (poorly). No ethics. No innovation. Simple rip off artists and they're proud to be. I just don't get it.

**seanachie** · 25th July 13, 08:15 PM

Hopefully some of this will spark a bit of conscience. I do not believe all Pakistani merchants are unscrupulous nor all merchants in Scotland pillars of virtue. Nonetheless I have seen many threads over time showing people giving their custom to these less than stellar merchants. My wardrobe has increased slowly over time but I feel reasonably confident that their are no items whose pedigree would bring me shame. I try to frequent merchants who are members here as much as possible.

**TJ Kelley** · 25th July 13, 09:50 PM

lame... think its time for a nice watermark. At least on anything larger than thumbnail size.
large but tasteful, make it to hard for them to steal.

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**Jock Scot** · 26th July 13, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by TJ Kelley

lame... think its time for a nice watermark. At least on anything larger than thumbnail size.
large but tasteful, make it to hard for them to steal.

Even I had one of my pictures stolen, I am not sure whether I should be flattered, or, annoyed! Well its too late now its happened, nevertheless we are talking about theft , so out of interest how does one place a watermark on a picture that might end up on the internet? Do you watermark everything just in case you might post it sometime, or do you watermark them as needed? Please, I am a technodunce so can we go steady on the technojargon.