Day 341. Flow water flow (outtake)

I just found out today, that some of my pictures are used very widely in the internet, without linking back to the original. Some were even in commercial use, as in, for sale.

I really don't know how that makes me feel.. It makes me feel sick, gutted and quite frankly, mad.

Aye, they weren't able to get the large size photo and aye, most of them had still my signature visible on them. But some people had actually tried to remove my sig and were offering a "full size" picture upload of a very bad quality.

There's actually no reason to be happy about being explored, it just exposes your pictures to even wider range of thieves, those shitty little people who are not good enough to do their own photography and end stealing from others. I wish they get a rash! On their face!

There's no such thing as common courtesy in the internet, I know that. This is a no man's land and the laws of nothing rule here. And I guess it's totally futile to even hope, that people would have some honesty and decency.

Aye, I know, a long rant.. But it was shocking to see how much pilfering there is going on in the world of photography in the internet. I always knew it happens, but to this scale? I feel sorry for those who do really amazing work, they must be targeted so often like this. And I really started to feel for the musicians who are getting pirated regularly. Piracy is a crime, be it photos or music. Just so sad there's nothing one can really do about it, apart from quit internet all together...

/rant off

 

Try this with your own most popular shots:

www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage...

Done