How to name and shame hotlinking thieves

[Stereo Steve]

He's ended them. Shame.

[los_design]

"The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale"

I don't think he's twigged yet....

Well,

I did send him this at 11am today

Dear sir

It has been brought to our attention that you have hotlinked this items image outside of ebay (along with many others) direct to our website and also that of tooled-up.com to name but one.

We are now giving you legal notice to remove all such links and images within 48 hours.

We have also obtained your sales record for the last 90 days and have forwarded this to our legal team who will be researching any sales made using our images.

I can assure you that IF any of these sales are linked to our images, we will be seeking full and frank legal recompense through the law courts as you have blatantly breached UK Copyright. We have NEVER given explicit permission for you to use any of our content.

We have also notified tooled up amongst others and you may find that similar action from these will follow.

Ebay have been notifed under the VeRo programme.

If these listings are NOT REMOVED WITHIN 48 HOURS, we will begin legal proceedings without further notice

He has killed of 1 but not the other 3 yet

Item number: 110006699846
Item number: 110006691971
Item number: 110006686329

[TraceyHand]

There were 2 people in the picture....
Further clues at 8pm.....

*check clock*
Is it 8pm yet?

[leehack]

They were unattired.
9pm update coming soon....

[TraceyHand]

9pm update coming soon....

s'pose I better go do something productive for an hour then...

[los_design]

They were unattired.
9pm update coming soon....

Awwwwwww come on Lee.....

All ended, looks like a successful day in the life of bandwidth pirate chasers, not got the same ring as ghost busters has it.

[TraceyHand]

All ended, looks like a successful day in the life of bandwidth pirate chasers, not got the same ring as ghost busters has it.

oooh....I want a E-proton gun! Reckon I'd look good with one

[TraceyHand]

9pm update coming soon....

*taps watch and looks around*

[george]

I won't reveal my tecniques, just that they work.

[TraceyHand]

I won't reveal my tecniques, just that they work.

oh now..come on George...tell us all about your techniques

[PaulGrimshaw]

apologies

apologies on being ignorant, but how do you tell if someone is hotlinking your images?

Thanks,
paul.

[TraceyHand]

you should be able to tell through your site stats.
I found mine from checking through my referring sites and seeing where the images were getting hits from
There are some strange websites using some of my images..but it was this one Ebayer in particular who got my....omg..I'm gonna say it...GOAT
hth anyway

[george]

oh now..come on George...tell us all about your techniques

*checks that it IS still the Actinic forum*

[george]

Hardest hotlinking to trace (no pun etc) has to be myspace... or bebobollocks...

[TraceyHand]

(no pun etc)

LMAO
yeh....sure...