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 Posted - August 26 2011 : 11:22:22 PM
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Hey I found someone has ripped off spider's(GIC) pic on Ebay!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Scale-Model-Trailers-/180715122894?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2a1375f0ce
now look in here
http://www.goingincirclez.com/TycoTrains/Guide/1
It the same pic!! 
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Posted - August 27 2011 : 12:06:47 AM
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Yep...had that happen to a couple of mine...
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Posted - August 27 2011 : 01:03:15 AM
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Someone should contact the "Ebay Police" ....
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Posted - August 27 2011 : 05:04:09 AM
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| a rip of more than the picture,$67 to post to uk ken
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Posted - August 27 2011 : 06:55:45 AM
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Let's see, Historic hurricane,.... Lybia, .... US Economy,... trailer jet photo thieving. Yup.
-Gareth
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Posted - August 27 2011 : 07:52:57 AM
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quote:Let's see, Historic hurricane,.... Lybia, .... US Economy,... trailer jet photo thieving. Yup.
-Gareth
Originally posted by romcat - August 27 2011 : 06:55:45 AM
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Four signs of the apocolypse!
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Posted - August 27 2011 : 10:36:17 PM
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quote:Let's see, Historic hurricane,.... Lybia, .... US Economy,... trailer jet photo thieving. Yup.
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Now that's funny!
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Posted - August 27 2011 : 11:49:45 PM
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| Damn Canucks!!! Time for war, stealing a US treasure.
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Posted - August 28 2011 : 5:07:05 PM
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| O.O you had me worried there Admin Thought I was in trouble
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Posted - August 28 2011 : 5:34:11 PM
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You know considering the US mIlitary has only 1 combatant for every 10 in it's ranks, you guys are stretched pretty thin, don't you think!
-Gareth
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Posted - August 28 2011 : 8:12:11 PM
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The pic in the Tyco Collectors Guide of the C430 PRR Alco is the pic from the auction where I won my PRR C430.
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Posted - August 29 2011 : 2:03:30 PM
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Heh heh, I'm internet famous now. Make a portmanteau, and you get InFamous. WOOOOOOOT!
The nature of the internet is cross-pollenization and reuse. The best one can hope for is attribution, but it's not like I can sit here and say I've never re-used a pic somewhere. Heck, trying to trace the original source of something can be impossible in some cases... you might credit somebody only to learn they lifted it from somewhere else. At the end of the day it's all public.
The main issue I have in this instance is the gross misrepresentation on ebay. What that person is selling is NOT what's in the pic, even if it is very close or identical for practical purposes.
My only recourse is a watermark, something I've considered and decided against several times. However, owing to some issues with the backend software on my site, I've been considering watermarks as a means to reinstate the captions on the collection gallery.... may as well do the other pics too. But with thousands of pics to do, it's not worth the effort. Plus, unless you destroy the pic by placing the watermark in an obtrusive area, determined types can crop it out entirely (ask me how I know ).
The internet giveth, the internet taketh... in the end it's just a picture, nothing more.
But I did get a chuckle ;)
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Posted - August 29 2011 : 2:23:50 PM
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Two things;
One nice to see someone else use the term "Portmanteu". I actually develop my own, among them from my college days "IDpulse"
and more recently "FauxPang" I'll leave that to your imagination.
The other thing was, I knew you'd put this in perspective with all the internet related work you've done!
NOTE: Edited only for spelling NOT content, now move along......
-Gareth
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Edited by - romcat on June 03 2012 6:15:35 PM
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