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There is a large free site of blibliographic descriptions of magazines which gets fed by a small group of 'contributors'.
These 'contributors' steal the bibliographic descriptions made with hard work and money by Ebay sellers. They offer them to the free site (which even references that they got those from Ebay) either by email or on a seme-public moderated forum at yahoogroups. Once the editor gets the descriptions he edits them.
Although the site access is free, this editor even sells indexes on CDs with some of that information.
Ebay won't do anything about it and this editor just got abusive and locked me out of his moderated group. So much for having any business ethics based on honesty.
Since I have many bibliographic descriptions that cost me a lot of work and I don't feel that my competitors should get our work for free, does anyone know a technical way to either make it impossible for these guys to copy my Ebay descriptions (without incapacitating 'right mouse click' which bothers buyers)?
Or maybe there is some software to allow encoding the text and tracking the copying perpetrators? I have done some rudimentary encoding myself, but it is not that effective.
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Ask Jason about how to do a DDOS on them.
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Who is Jason and what is DDOS?
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Internet service attack. Preventing them to get online or makes their internet super slow. Take down their site / server.
It's a pretty easy thing to do.
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It is also illegal.
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Originally Posted by leeflang_archives
There is a large free site of blibliographic descriptions of magazines which gets fed by a small group of 'contributors'.
I don't feel that my competitors should get our work for free, does anyone know a technical way to either make it impossible for these guys to copy my eBay descriptions (without incapacitating 'right mouse click' which bothers buyers)?
Or maybe there is some software to allow encoding the text and tracking the copying perpetrators? I have done some rudimentary encoding myself, but it is not that effective.
How I can block a "right mouse click" to prevent others from copying my photos of artwork?
Don't know if you could do it this way, but it is possible.
You could use a Photo program which allows you to type into an image file...You could then save it as a JPG file... Then imbed a "digimarc" in the image... It costs about $100 a year, for using Digimarc service for I believe 1000 images.
Bob
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When you say "biblographic description" do you mean a list of all articles in the magazine and all the names mentioned? When you say edit...just what does this person edit out?
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Originally Posted by Artist
How I can block a "right mouse click" to prevent others from copying my photos of artwork?
Don't know if you could do it this way, but it is possible.
You could use a Photo program which allows you to type into an image file...You could then save it as a JPG file... Then imbed a "digimarc" in the image... It costs about $100 a year, for using Digimarc service for I believe 1000 images.
Bob
you can block right click copy but that will stop only the least informed
if its on the net , I can copy it . no way around that.
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I just use PaintShop Pro and edit in my own text into the photo. I use a translucent text of a light color like yellow. The text usually says something like (c) 2005 my name. And I make a point of putting the text overlapping onto the item so that cropping isn't going to help without deleting part of the item in the photo. The point to the exercise is to make it obvious that the user of the image isn't legally doing so. That makes any complaints much more black and white.
As for HTML code, there are ways to put a comment in the code. The comment can be a copyright notice and it not be something displayed on the auction page. Someone cutting and pasting the HTML might miss the copyright notice. If they do, it becomes black and white that your description was copied. Proving that they copied is what you want for the likes of VeRO, and for the court in case they stupidly sue claiming that the legitimate owner falsely accused them of copying.
My favorite stories are the ones where not only did a stupid seller steal someone's photo, they stole the use of the owner's photo host to use the stolen photo in their own auction. The owner of the photo simply changes the photo to something obscene or writes a scathing copying accusation across the photo, which would not otherwise be seen, if the stealer had not improperly used the photo. The owner's own auction then uses a different photo.
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Originally Posted by sharronn
When you say "biblographic description" do you mean a list of all articles in the magazine and all the names mentioned? When you say edit...just what does this person edit out?
Our descriptions included all advertising and articles, so non-fiction. That gets edited out since the copying site only shows basic detaiils like edition # and volume and fiction titles/authors/illustrators.
I already figured out how to get around that by adding at random a 'fictional' fiction story and author in my descriptions. They'll be in for a nasty suprise. :-)