another website has stolen images from my site

[jazzydan58]

Another website has taken images from my site and are using them on a eccomerce site, I seem to remember someone posting a preformatted letter/email that could be sent to the ISP hosting the site requesting them to remove the images anyone know where I can find it as I have not been able to locate it using search....

[holidays2crete]

this should help

http://www.copyscape.com/resources.php

[CrispyUK]

Start off with a cease and desist notice to the website owner, asking them to remove the images and giving them a timescale to do so/contact you. If that fails then think about getting in touch with the ISP/host.

[jazzydan58]

I have asked the website to remove the images and they said they will try to get round to changing them, that was 6 months ago!

I have left it on the back burner for a while but I want to get it sorted outnow as they are taking the P!

[PointandStare]

Do they link directly to the images?
If so, change the images to include your URL all over them = free advertising.

Oh ... and what' the URL?

[mike1337]

Do they link directly to the images?
If so, change the images to include your URL all over them = free advertising.

Oh ... and what' the URL?

Or put a picture of tubgirl on it :D

[scrizzle]

Or if your using .htaccess simply put

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(.*\.)?YOURurl.net [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpeg|jpg|gif|png)$ http://you.com/badimagepic.jpg [NC,R,L]

This will show badimagepic.jpg instead of the image = free advertising!

[JustOneUK]

This will show badimagepic.jpg instead of the image = free advertising!
Only if they are hotlinking directly to the image. Seen that done a few times though... damn funny if done with a #cough# naughty image :p

[AndyBlack]

Someone hot linked to images on one of my sites. I just changed those images to ones that said 'I stole these images from...... Etc'. They stole my pages content too. That page is bringing in about 650 uniques to this site per month.

If you put a dodgy image, it could look bad on you as it links to your url.

It's an adsense blog. They obviously haven't seen it since I changed those images as it is still showing.

[lesliedocherty]

go round and punch him in the buck teeth

[ServersandSpares]

How did you ask the website owner to remove the pics? If it was in writing and you have evidence of them receiving the letter (recorded delivery, courier etc) then I would just send them an invoice for the use of each picture for the last 6 months, with a clearly defined time to pay. Also include a new letter detailing that they still do not have permission to use your pics and every day they do so will incur further charges. (Make sure you use a postage service that gives you proof of delivery - for something like this I'd never use Royal Mail, I'd use a courier and send to a specific named person with the proviso that only that person can sign for the letter.)