Forum: Bryce


Subject: **Update on desktopcollector.com

Alleycat169 opened this issue on Jan 29, 2002 ยท 32 posts


Alleycat169 posted Wed, 30 January 2002 at 4:57 PM

I can understand the frustration you feel. I am not a big fan of these kinds of sites even when they are run legally. So, if you don't get the satisfaction you seek you can contact Linda MacNew at mrscyber@emcs.net , she is the owner of hotspotcity.com and they are the company that hosts the site desktopcollector.com. I was at least able to get a dialogue going with Nic, but I cced all correspondance to Linda. So if you write to nic@desktopcollector.com (that's his personal email address) make sure you CC or better yet BCC (which is blind copy) Linda as well. This way she will have a record of your complaint if it is ignored by Nic. Remember that she owns the servers and she will be the one who removes the site if it comes to that. She can be held liable for any copyright infringements and she has more to lose than Nic does. Once again I have to say that you really should not post images large enough to be used as high res wallpaper. I never post anything here or in my gallery that is over 800x600 pixels, and all my work has copyright notice printed across the bottom of the image. Most people can't even view images that are over 1025 pixels in their browsers without scrolling. On a site like 'osity it is really a horrendous waste of bandwidth to post something that large. Even though I render at a much higher resolution I save those for printing and if someone tries to steal my smaller image I can always prove it is mine by showing the huge original file. Don't make yourself a victim by offering poster size versions of your work for free. Just a little common sense lesson.