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!!!

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 

Sharie, here are two direct links to yours so you don't have to dirty your cookies! :)

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/b/i.php?i=a|236896

http://www.artfile.ru/oboi/b/i.php?i=a|226675

Lyne

Thanks Lyne! I didn't know they had another of mine there. That one really irks me. I'll send an email to both places. Surely one of them will get through to the right people.

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

Fantastic news Lyne! Let's hope, with the originators speaking up, that they will decide to shut the site down. I'm sure they don't want all these angry artist yelling at them!

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!

Not sure Lyne but they may have a way of redirecting certain ips and not tohers.  So they probly been watching and got your ip and others who have a complient.
  These people you are dealing wtih are very smart and computer savy.   I think you are fighting a loosing battle and I know you don't want to hear that.      Its same as seeing your models on p2p and news groups. :)