ImageLogr Scrapes "Billions" of Images Illegally 271
PurpleCarrot writes "In what must be one of the largest attempts to scrape images from the Web, the site ImageLogr.com 'claims to be scraping the entire "free web" and seems to have hit Flickr especially hard, copying full-sized images of yours and mine to their own servers, where they are hosting them without any attribution or links back to the original image in violation of all available licenses on Flickr.' The site even contains the option to directly download images that ImageLogr has scraped. What makes this endeavor so amazing is that it isn't a case of 'other people gave us millions of infringing images, help us remove the wrong ones,' but one of 'we took all the images on the Web; if we got one of yours, oops!' The former gets some protection from the DMCA, whereas the latter is blatant infringement. ImageLogr's actions have caused a flurry of activity, and the site's owners have subsequently taken it offline, displaying the following message: 'Imagelogr.com is currently offline as we are improving the website. Due to copyright issues we are now changing some stuff around to make people happy. Please check back soon.'"
Kill (Score:2, Informative)
The web is full of landmines. They're going to download and repost something that someone who has good lawyers is going to demand they remove, and then they'll die... quietly.
Re:Google image search? (Score:3, Informative)
Not exactly. Underneath the images is the domain name where the image resides, and if you click on the image it still takes you to the page with a frame on top displaying the smaller version of the image.
Heh. Frames.
Re:If you want to contact them for any reason... (Score:4, Informative)
Aha, you must mean imagelogr@gmail.com!
Take it Offline (Score:2, Informative)
If you want something completely under your control, you do not put it online. How hard is this?
About Us (Score:2, Informative)
Imagelogr.com is an image & picture search engine. We try to index pretty much every picture & image currently available on the free internet. With our powerful search engine finding these images should be fairly easy. We also offer a few image manipulation tools to stand out from the competition.
From the main page. This is pretty funny.
Re:Yeah. That's it. (Score:5, Informative)
you are promoting the idea of intellecual property... on slashdot.
good luck with that.
Re:Don't cry now (Score:2, Informative)
That's not a copyright notice.
Re:DMCA? Only in America (Score:2, Informative)
WHOIS 173.236.52.170:
OrgName: SingleHop, Inc.
OrgID: SINGL-8
Address: 621 W. Randolph St.
Address: 3rd Floor
City: Chicago
StateProv: IL
PostalCode: 60661
Country: US
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.singlehop.net:4321
NetRange: 173.236.0.0 - 173.236.127.255
CIDR: 173.236.0.0/17
OriginAS: AS32475
NetName: SINGLEHOP
NetHandle: NET-173-236-0-0-1
Parent: NET-173-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.SINGLEHOP.COM
NameServer: NS2.SINGLEHOP.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 2010-03-23
Updated: 2010-03-23
Allocated to an ISP in the United States.
What really happened... (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.domainlogr.com/imagelogr.php
This should explain everything
Re:And the point is...? (Score:3, Informative)
Storing != Publishing without attribution.