Post this up in the Copyright forum, someone there may be able to help. Caveat - you may not have much luck with Russian sites. A lot of 'em have a cheerful disregard for such inconveniences as copyright laws. Given the level of organized crime there, the LEAs probably have bigger fish to fry.

tivao, I was just at the site as directd by your url and there was no image, just the broken image icon. Maybe it was taken down?

Anyone with a gallery needs to look at that one. I saw Jim Burtons Mermaid he posted here in the poser forum on page 2 of "fantasy".

There is an email icon below each image, send them an email. If you don't want to use your regular email address, set up a hotmail one and use that, or PM me and I'll send you a GMAIL invite and you can set up a gmail address and mail them from there.

I did finally manage to find the email link and figured out their contact form a short while ago. I guess they did take it down. But I hope nothing else is in there.

Well, I don't know what your art looks like, but the catagories from left to right going across are as follows: Cities, Brendy, Nature, Fantasy, Weapons, Anime, Computers Cosmos, Men, Animals, New Year, 3D Graphics, Motorcycles, Girls Food, sports, music, Risovannye, Autos, Erotic Humor, Cinema, Different, Ships, Aviation, Video Games Maybe you can browse through the topics. There are many, many pages there though.

My experience with sites/people in Russia is that they do not always know the conventions of intelectual property etc. standard in North america but individualy I have found them friendly and wishing to do the right thing if contacted politely.

On the other hand... ;), Russia is known as one of the largest problems in hacking, cracking, and identity theft. Of all of the major attempts (and occassional successes) at compromising my internet network, all of the culprits were in Russia (one in Moscow, particularly). My plugin has been cracked and sold on CD of other cracked commercial Cinema 4D plugins - from Russian crackers. Polite or not, there is some rampant stuff going on there that needs to be addressed. They get away with it because international law and its enforcement concerning internet and electronic data are currently a joke.

In general, international copyright hasn't tended to be enforced as strictly as in the United States - and has been a diplomatic sore point for some years. The explosion of international theft, duplication, and distribution of American software has taken the problem from sore to infected. Awhile back I saw an articlethat detailed the greatest number of software violations occuring in Asia - with the most in Communist China. Probably the best you could hope for would be to have the pic taken down - if no money's involved, even in the U.S., there's little that could/would be done to provide restitution where there are no economic damages.

In the past I had a lot of problems with a forum in another country hotlinking images off of my site. I used the htaccess file to block the hotlinking. You can also block their entire website from yours by using the Deny command in htaccess. If anyone needs details on the coding let me know.

This crime, known as bandwidth theft or deep linking, is easy to be stopped. A small tut you can find at: http://www.ulliswelt.com/dateien/htm/hp_tools/htaccess_en.html On my Website it works very well. Good luck Ulli