Here is what might REALLY help!! Write to the e mails at the ISP's that NOTICE: ARE

NOT BASED IN RUSSIA! Send the link to your image (click to get large copy) and if

you want, send the link to your rosity gallery for proof of your ownership. I am going

to do that.

If we all do this, it may actually help!!!

The site itself for you to check:
http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=32&j=0&us_id=329&s=a
and be sure to dump cookies etc. after!

From: ClintH
Sent: 2007-03-12 11:18:02
Subject: RE: My image stolen and posted on that russian site!

Hi Lyne, Well, The next step when you cant contact the actual site owner is to

contact the ISP that is hosting the site. The ISP will generaly contact the site owner

or bring the site down if enough requests are sent to them about the site illegally

displaying copyrighted works.

I checked on this site and found that the ISP hosting the site appears to be as

follows:

Registrant: Make this info private
   Reseaux IP Europeens - Network Coordinati on Centre  
   Singel 258
   Amsterdam, NH 1016 AB 
   NL 
    
   Domain Name: RIPE.NET 
 
   Administrative Contact :   
   Admin Contact, RIPE NCC 
   dns-reg-admin@ripe.net 
   Singel 258
   Amsterdam, Noord Holland 1016Ab 
   NL 
   Phone: 020 5354444 
   Fax: 020 5354445 
    
   Technical Contact :   
   RIPE Network Coordination Centre  
   ops@RIPE.NET 
   Singel 258
   Amsterdam, NH 1016 AB ** 
   NL 
   Phone: http://www.ripe.net 
   Fax: 123 123 1234 
    
   Record expires on 26-Feb-2010   
   Record created on 25-Feb-1992 
   Database last updated on 09-Oct-2006 
 
   Domain servers in listed order: Manage DNS 
 
   NS-EXT.ISC.ORG     204.152.184.64   
   NS3.NIC.FR        
   NS-PRI.RIPE.NET     193.0.0.195   
   SUNIC.SUNET.SE        
    
      Show underlying registry data for this record  
    

Current Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. 
IP Address: 193.0.0.214  (ARIN & RIPE IP search) 
IP Location: UK(UNITED KINGDOM) 
Record Type: Domain Name 
Server Type: Apache 2 
Lock Status: clientTransferProhibited 
Web Site Status: Active 
DMOZ  1 listings 
Y! Directory:  see listings 
Web Site Title: Welcome to RIPE.NET 
Secure: Yes 
E-commerce: No 
Traffic Ranking: 4 
Data as of: 20-Nov-2006 

I looked through about 200 pages of this. It's mainly Poser stuff, and mostly unclothed or nearly so..;) They hit some people more than others, and a lot are unattributed. Surprisingly, though I noted some familiar names, a lot of this stuff was new to me. Still, they didn't ask permission, so they're opening up a whole can of woop-@#$ on themselves.

Here is what I found, just a few of what is there. There are 200 pages with images, approx 9 images per page.

Time for Flight [by Burpee

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=32&j=0&us_id=329&s=a

Coming Home [by ICM]

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=70&j=0&us_id=329&s=a

My final image here. [by JLyons]

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=79&j=0&us_id=329&s=a

dancing snakes [by djartis]

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=84&j=0&us_id=329&s=a

Cableworks [by ICM]
Ray Harryhausen tribute [by Dann-O]

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=88&j=0&us_id=329&s=a

The Adventurers [by hobbit]

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=100&j=100&us_id=329&s=a

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/b/i.php?i=a|146283

 
Some when else (by wawadave)

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=103&j=100&us_id=329&s=a

Projection v2 (updated)by Incarnadine.

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/us_ad.php?p=110&j=100&us_id=329&s=a

Ill be writing to both the site ops and the ISP.

sigh

Will I never be good enough to be ripped off?!

sigh, it's more trouble to shut these guys down than an ass full of nails...=|

There is an offer of help from a Fractal member. 
Check out the thread there. And the one in Photography and Poser.

I am even talked with a few friends of hard erotic images, some of them got ripped too.

I'm still content that none of my stuff will be good enough to be ripped, but for those that are, hope you there's gonna be a butt wooping!

I'm sending a note myself. At least they left it attributed.
also say wiskeysierra (http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/b/i.php?i=a|221085) and fpicini (http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/b/i.php?i=a|218889) works (also attributed)

:(  No one is ripping my things :(

I got a trouble ticket from this e mail!!... so don't give up... send lots of e mails with the links to the large copy of your image and complain!! I got:

"RIPE NCC Operations" ops@ripe.net

Greetings,

This message has been automatically generated in response to the
creation
of a ticket regarding:

        "Web site traced back to you is hosting illegal copies of art!"

Maybe in some small way we can make a difference! Especially important for those of us making money from our art!

Lyne

What might be helpful is to make a database of art sites that do display illegal art. Kinda like a black list. Artists could check the list before supporting the web site with their art. The database could be expanded to include people, as I understand there are some persons who go about uploading art work, claiming to be the artist. There was an issue some months ago about this type of person.

reclicked my image link and now it's a "re-direct" so fast I can't copy it, but goes to a

DIFFERENT SITE with a photo of potatoes!! ?!?!  So is my art image still at that other

site but hidden or removed? Is this their way of removing the art?? Curious!

The Redirect to Potatoes is active right from the root address

Well I'll beeeee....someone actually stole one of my pics.  Should I feel honored, LOL.  Thanks for finding that ICM and Lyne.  I'm good at being pestering so I'll have to send off a bunch of irritating emails :)