STEALING PHOTOS!!!????????

My guess is this guy has never taken a photo of his own!

I just tried downloading my a/c recognition shots and did two of them before I looked at what I got. Bummer; there is no copyright on the photos now. So if I use download to replace them, I lose that feature. Thanks a lot to this thief - may he die a thousand deaths with by flea bites!

I spoke to Collin at Flightaware, when trying to reach Sara. I sent both an email.

I told them that I do appreciate flightaware, and that I appreciate it is a free site - and that I myself use it all the time for aircraft spotting since I live in MCO's approach and check it all the time to see if anything unusual or cool is coming in - such as when Frontier comes in as I am trying to collect all of the animal tails. I even told them I would post those pictures back up on there once I registered with them - I could give them the originals

What they need is the N Number of the picture this guy stole, then some proof of that picture is yours - ie just send a link of your a-d photo.

I found 8 total pictures stolen of mine - eight from Daytona during Daytona 500, one from titusville Airshow and the other was from Orlando Executive Airport - I have a feeling if this guy wasn't caught soon, he would probably be popping a bunch of my NBAA stuff up soon.

I did notice a Falcon 50 from Moscow that he stole from Sergei Rebeisev - I know I butchered spelling of his name. I also noticed that Dean Heald took a picture of a Cessna 208 landing at LAX, but this clamber07 guy claimed it was a different airport.

What they need is the N Number of the picture this guy stole, then some proof of that picture is yours - ie just send a link of your a-d photo.

That might just be an excuse. Prove me wrong. I have sent Sara well over 40 evidence (all with Registry number, photo link on airport-data.com, and photo link on flightaware), in several emails. All stolen photos I listed in this thread are sent. But only a few of them are removed.

I just tried downloading my a/c recognition shots and did two of them before I looked at what I got. Bummer; there is no copyright on the photos now.

Hold on, I will add some more functions later letting you download copyright-tagged photos.

I spoke to Collin White at Flight Aware. If the stuff hasn't been removed, I am assuming they are swamped. Sara had already left for the day.

Try emailing collin.white@flightaware.com

who is the one thats stealing photos ??? this is not correct is there any way to lock out people from download my photos from my photo gallery?

or Log the users info when they take a photo from the gallery??

:?:

ok

thank you for leting me know

Yesterday I sent out about 10 emails to members/posters who's photo(s) are stolen by cclambert07. To my surprise, I was cc'ed by by one of them with this email to FlightAware (sidenote: this poster looks like to be the aircraft owner):

Please remove this photo as this ridiculous person is crying about a picture

of our aircraft.

He should feel honored that anyone would want to list it somewhere else but

he is rude and claiming it has been stolen.

As a follow up, today I found flightaware blocked access to cclambert07's photo gallary (or collection, whatever they call it) page, but photos are still there. Now we can't figure out how many photos are left to be checked out.

To All,

I have added some small script to prevent right-click on photo images, a tiny step towards anti-theft.

Since I disabled right-click function, I have got quite some complains, and I found it really a pain without right-clcik myself.

Now watermark is in place, maybe we should re-enable right-click.

Ken

I have mixed feelings about the right click thing.

I like the idea of making it more difficult for them to steal by a simple right click and save. It is probably more effective than the watermark, unless the watermark cut through the airplane.

The problem is when I try and right click and open in new tab or if I want to share my own photo on a forum or something. But I have worked around that by logging in.

Over all I would say keep it.

How about just put back right-click for members but leave it disabled for anonymous visitors? I think the "cclambert07 issue" is rare and isolete. Most, if not all, members on our site are great.

Ken

The right-click disable function is trivial to defeat, it won't slow down anyone who is even a little bit determined to rip off an image from this site. I would think that most technical users know at least one way to defeat it that doesn't require any special software etc. -- I can think of three off the top of my head.