The Stealing Has To Stop

Splinter

What's so moronic about it? Are you still a goofy 20 year old that starts every sentence with, "Ummmm"? A professionally worded letter to protect your own digital property is required these days...


Maybe Chris should just find the guy and club him on the head...

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Tom Struble

[quote=Splinter;806012]What's so moronic about it? Are you still a goofy 20 year old that starts every sentence with, "Ummmm"?

i think he's an entrepreneur

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ChrWright

Yes, and I'd love to hear your point if you have one...

If you're just being a smart ass, then I'd say mission accomplished.

If you have an alternative viewpoint on the theft of intellectual property then let's hear it.

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ChrWright

I posted this to another thread, and I'll say it again here:

I'm certainly not going to waste money on a lawsuit.

But if someone refuses to remove content they've stolen from me, I'll make damn sure anyone searching their name online knows they're a thief. If they belong to a trade organization (NARI, NAHB, ETC.) someone's going to hear about it on their ethics committees. I'll do my best to get them de-listed from Google and their site taken down by their ISP--there's certainly no guarantee of that but I know at least one other contractor has had success getting this done in the past.

In ten minutes of online searching, I knew quite a lot about the gentleman who stole from me and the organizations and groups he belonged to in the industry and in his market. The cost to his reputation would have been very high had he not removed my content. For my part, I have not published his name on the forums since he complied with my request in a timely fashion.

The hacks are certainly less likely to care about any of this and will probably just snub their nose. But anyone who goes to the trouble of building a website is more likely than not to care about their name turning to mud online.

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Chris G

Watermarks don't have to be an eyeseore. I think Mac has some of the nicest ones I have seen. Whenever he posts pics here, they always appear. More like a logo on picture, but by definition, a watermark.

Also, people aren't stupid. They know there are contractors out there that misrepresent themselves. If you show a cool watermark on your pics, it enhances the perception that you are the real deal, and are frankly, proud enough of your work to put a big stamp on it.

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OGStilts

Did you guys know you can disable the right click feature of the mouse on your website? I did it on this website if you'd like to see what I'm talking about.

www.northshorebathrooms.com

It's not completely fool proof but it makes it a lot harder for them to steal your pictures or copy your text.

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Mike Finley

Nice website Chad. I'll be spending the weekend copying it!

Just kidding.

OGStilts

Well Zin, this is the 2nd stupid post by you today to catch my attention. So I see you are new to this party, do you have anything useful to say around here or do you just like to stir up trouble.

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OGStilts

It hasn't been working so I think you might want to stick with what you got.

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BCConstruction

I couldnt care less if people stole pics and ideas from my website. In over 12 years of using on line advertiseing i cant think of one time i gained work from it. 90% of my work was recomendations. Let the people who steal your ideas go and try and do what you do. They will make their self look like a bunch of idiots.

480sparky

As well as make us all look that way.

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BCConstruction

Many sites do that but all you have to do to copy the screen is press print screen and then ctrl-v to paste it into a paint program. Just as easy as doing right click.

BCConstruction

If they are directly affecting your buiness then yes it's a problem. But like they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Let them try and be like you. What matters in the end is that you are who you say you are and your quality of work defines how the customers see you. If the guy copying could do work like he is copying then he wouldnt need to steal photos of work. It will soon come back and bite them.

jkfox624

I read the title and i was thinking of ppl stealing tools. On that note we had the local carpentry class from high school come to a job to see how things work, some bastard stole a can of snuff and a drywall rasp. I can picture them being one of the bastards you guys are complaining about in a couple years.

angus242

Or just use Firefox. You still get the message box stating right-click has been disabled but after clicking "OK" the right-click menu pops up anyway.

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OGStilts

Like I said it's not completely fool proof, but you just made it a lot easier for the fools that do this crap to figure that out. Thanks.

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OGStilts

You too.

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BCConstruction

Water marks are def the way to go though if your worried about it.

Mike Finley

You might still be working on it, but your link to your gallery pages is broken on your FAQ page.

480sparky

If it affects my business, then it affects yours as well.

We all know there's good used car salesmen, and there's bad ones. But we always talk about the bad ones.

There's good politicians, and there's bad politicians. But we only take up issues when the bad ones pop up.

Same way with contractors. There's good ones and there's bad ones. And the bad ones will always ruin it for the rest of us.

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