Sunday, June 14, 2009
85 comments:
I reserve the right to not publish ignorant ill-informed and filthy comments from vile cretins who have a four letter vocabulary. Further, anonymous comments with strong opinions and personal attacks may be rejected. If you want to voice a strong opinion, at least have the courage to sign your name to it. You don't even have to use your name, make something up so the next person can address your comment without confusion.
Some men, you just can't reach.
ReplyDeleteLOLZ!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWTF??? He took images without permission and now wants them back? NFW!
ReplyDeleteWow. I'd reply and ask him to please call his lawyer and explain the story, then send you the recording of the lawyer laughing his head off and he tries to explain the meaning of the terms "warranty," "contract," and "cause of action."
ReplyDeleteIf I had taken the Bar in whatever state this joker lives, I'd offer to send the guy my phone number so I could get a good laugh.
Seriously? I mean, just... Wow.
ReplyDeleteThat might be the funniest thing I've read in a while. Nothing like a presumptive hot-linking copyright thief with a martyr complex and a refreshingly sense of entitlement...
ReplyDeleteIt's one thing to pirate and steal from someone, but it's a whole 'nother ball game to threaten sending lawyers after you for inconveniencing their theft.
ReplyDeleteBravo. Invite him to contact his lawyers or just send him a bill for images used so far.
=)
WTF Indeed. Did somebody actually send you this?
ReplyDeleteHilarious!
ReplyDeleteTalk about chutzpah! Wow!
How does a person make it to the year 2009 on the Internet and not know better than that? That is... there are no words. He's going to contact his lawyer? What, so that his lawyer can try to restrain himself from laughing before the guy gets off the phone?
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a whole lot of stupid.
ReplyDeleteSo, did you direct him to the US Copyright office or did you encourage him to contact his attorney?
Seriously? Did he email that to you?
ReplyDeleteplease please PLEASE! RELEASE THE CONTACT INFO! such fun could be had.
ReplyDeleteWOW......If this was an email to you I would suggest telling the guy to contact his lawyer. Then call yours and sue for damages. If I remember correctly you can get close to $10,000 per image. Once you take the image it's copyrighted, you don't have to register it with the copyright office but it helps.
ReplyDeleteOr you can just respond with simply HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
How dare you! Have you no respect for the "honest businessman" who is simply trying to scratch out a living using nothing but the sweat of his, er... someone else's brow.
ReplyDeleteHow do you expect him to attract serious bidders on his Ebay auctions of your stuff if the pictures don't show up?
Xavier...
ReplyDeleteMay I call him back? Please?
EricN
Weird.
ReplyDeleteActually, it occurs to me that the best way to respond would be to apologize as obsequiously as possible and restore the images.
ReplyDeleteThen, in a about a week or so, replace them with the most vile and deviant fetishistic pornography you can find.
That should be good for business.
Please keep this one going... it promises to be most entertaining.
ReplyDeleteThis person is a total idiot....or...um...yeah basically a total idiot.
ReplyDeletePlease have him try to sue you, so the lawyer he tries to hire laughs at him.
Wow. Just wow.
ReplyDeleteYou're at no risk of a lawsuit whatsoever. Hilarious.
ReplyDeleteLol, how much did he pay you for that stuff I wonder?
ReplyDeleteben
Let me see if I understand this correctly, he is using your pictures on which he doesn't have a copyright or permission to use and he is going to contact his lawyer to initiate legal action against you? Am I missing something here or is he a Darwin candidate?
ReplyDeleteHAHA. That is so funny. The guy is stealing your bandwidth from you blog and then he gets angry when your images stop working.
ReplyDeleteSo he's illegally using your images (I presume that he never asked permission) now he's threatening to contact his lawyer unless you put them back up? I'm not quite sure what he hopes to accomplish.
ReplyDeleteWeird. That's got to be a scam of some kind, but damned if I know what.
ReplyDeleteResponse should be "Dear ****, Before I can post my previously posted photographs which you have been using for your commercial business even though you do not have a copyright to, nor permission to use, I need to know how long you have been using them for your commercial business, how much profit you have made since using them, and what your address is. Please send the information to my attorney." Don't be surprised if he sends the information.
ReplyDeleteIs that even for real?
ReplyDeleteWow. Unclear on the concept.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding me?
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious.
ReplyDeleteGeez Xavier, I wouldn't know whether to laugh or beat the snot out of that dimbulb - maybe he ingested some expired narcotics or sumpthin?
ReplyDeleteHankH
Thank you. I've been having a less than stellar day, and that just made me very, very amused.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine the guy's reaction when his attorney says "You do realize you just gave the guy cause to file suit against you for damages, right?"
Thanks.
Is He serious? WTF, makes me want to check my pictures. Doesn't he know you can shoot?
ReplyDeleteYou had to blur out the number?
ReplyDeleteTell him to write his Congressman in support of Directive 10-289. Stoopit.
WOW!
ReplyDeleteany idea what images he was using?
did you call him up and ask him WTF he ws doing? or are you going to let him call his lawyer and let the lawyer laugh at him then bill him?
Where did you find this guy?????? I think he has his priorities mixed up.!
ReplyDeleteFan-tas-tic! You gotta admire his kahounas. He's also not terribly bright or he would have simply stolen your pictures outright. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou are a pretty darn good picture taker, Mr. X. Keep up the extra-good work!
ReplyDeleteWord Verification: anutwar I hope this nutjob doesn't think he can go anywhere with this.
Talk about living in the age of entitlement! Especially off other people's work!
ReplyDeleteCounter his suit with a copyright infringement. His email provides evidence that he took your photos.
As Bugs Bunny would say; "What a marooon!"
Let him know that he owes YOU money for using your photos to promote his products without permission. You stand to make some good money off this.
Now THAT takes the cake...
ReplyDeleteI would have been sorely tempted to leave the contact info.
This person obviously has no understanding of copyright law. It seems that he has just admitted in the message that he has used your images for a business purpose, presumably without permission.
ReplyDeletePerhaps your lawyer should contact his lawyer about royalty payments and penalties.
Hmmm... Most content robbers are happy when you don't send a letter threatening a lawyer on them. Notice there are a few misspellings and funny wordings in the letter. Have you changed anything in your site?
ReplyDelete"Besides all these free images, thanks for all this blog content I take and use as my own words."
ReplyDeleteFree-loading bandwidth thief is what he was at best. Copyright violator at worst.
HA, HA, HA!
ReplyDeleteThat's what the delete button is for...
isn't "your images" self explanatory?
ReplyDeleteIsn't "your images" self explanatory?
ReplyDeleteKeith
My wife is an intellectual property attorney and thought this was hilarious.
ReplyDeleteSome people are too stupid for words.
Now that is just hillarious! You've got to send this to the guy at stupidphotographer.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteLOL, seriously?
ReplyDeleteTalk about having a brass pair!
ReplyDeleteWait... what? Threats of litigation? Tell him that if a picture does not say anything about copyright, it is generally assumed that the owner has full rights over it. Just because I produced a TV show and it has been broadcast does not mean people can just start pirating it.
ReplyDeleteSounds like he's hot-linking your images rather than downloading them and hosting them himself.
ReplyDeletethis is a very old running gag in the web industry. don't take it seriously.
ReplyDeletegorr
really?
ReplyDeleteFunny, just before I noticed the title of this "essay" but after reading the "interesting" email, my response was "WTF?!?!?" and then I noticed you title.
ReplyDeleteAt that point I laughed out loud. GMTA!
Nonetheless, after recovering from the irony, this is simply beyond belief. At this point, if your images are copyrighted, I'd suggest contacting your own lawyer. At the minimum, a cease-and-desist letter is appropriate.
I am astounded.
Surely it's obvious; the writer believes you are obliged to accommodate him because he wants the fruits of your labor, and believes you owe those fruits to him because he has been taking them from you without your permission. Time for an "Atlas Shrugged" refresher course.
ReplyDeleteHe should be glad you didn't replace the images he was using with goatse
ReplyDeleteThat'd learn him!
ROFLMAO -- You need to make it convenient for others to plagiarize
ReplyDeleteyour work! What were you thinking?
Must be a libtard.
He should be glad you didn't just replace the images he was using with something vile.
ReplyDeleteThat'd learn him!
Argh. I'm a goob. I thought the original post got auto-nuked because I used the word goatse.
ReplyDeleteI'll just slink away now....
Well, your 'images' are not marked Copyright-marked individually, but I note "Page protected by COPYSCAPE do not copy" at two locations on the page ... including in the footer immediately following
ReplyDelete"© 2009 Xavier Thoughts
All Rights Reserved
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ"
Given that the "honest businessman" who gets "no respect" obviously didn't have your permission to copy ANYTHING, and ...
... given that website owners don't always have full control over the continuity of their hosting service ....
... I think you would be fully justified by awarding the "First Annual Clueless Reader Award" to this charmingly wittless, er, gentleman.
Full credit to the winner for his decision not to sue your tukas into next week. That just goes to prove that he has some minimal survival instincts.
Now if he would just learn to call on those survival instincts BEFORE he pushes the SEND button!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!! The gall and dishonesty of some people.
ReplyDeleteGod is Great, Beer is Good, and Some People are Crazy! - Billy Currington
Way to get in the way of the small business man, Xav, you socialist bastard. WTF, indeed.
ReplyDeleteStop commies: watermark your pictures.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a dyed-in-the-wool parasite is taking offense that you would do with your work as you want to. What an unfortunate consequence of horrible philosophy.
ReplyDeleteJust in case anyone thinks this was sent to Xavier: this is from 2005.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.shapelessmass.com/index.html/?p=578
Still awesome 4 years later.
Read him the riot act, Xav -- copyright law applies to *almost* every country in the world, and your "perp" doesn't sound Chinese. He's breaking the law!
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping you jerk this nitwit around as much as conveniently possible and let us know how it pans out.
ReplyDeleteThe stupid, it burns!
ReplyDeleteJim
As Richard pointed out, this did not end up in my inbox. I found it on the 'net. rather than hotlinking the picture though, I copied the screenshot....... works better.......
ReplyDeleteYou have to be enjoying this.
ReplyDeletenot cool
ReplyDeleteSend him a bill for all of the bandwidth he has been stealing.
ReplyDeleteSend him the bill unpaid for storage and image access. Make your own price. Provide a link to a free image site. Let him sue them when it goes down.
ReplyDeleteYou should upload images at the same URL as before with the words "I am a bandwidth thief and an complete and utter moron, laugh at me at your pleasure"
ReplyDeleteSit back and watch the hilarity ensue...
Unless you have a buddy named EBA, then this is a duplicate of an email sent to an associate of mine. Now it feels like a Nigerian Oil minister spam scam. I don't know what their angle to get money out of someone is. Maybe people will be stupid enough to 'settle out of court.' He only needs one in 10,000 to do that to realize a profit, presumably.
ReplyDeleteI think this image is from 2005. Check this out: http://www.shapelessmass.com/index.html/?p=578
ReplyDeleteNow I am really confused.
Heh ... another hotlinking retard who needs to learn the hard way about tubgirl and goatse.
ReplyDeleteYou need to search Radley Balko's site, The Agitator, for his fun with the Illinois chapter of the RLC.
That idiot actually accused him of "hacking" when he substituted an image of an "obama dildo" for the one he was stealing.
I would be tempted to something like, "Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will have my lawyers contact yours to rectify this matter. By the way, would you please submit your last five tax returns immediately to speed this transaction along?"
ReplyDeleteGood post.
ReplyDeleteJames
I needed a good laugh! Thanks for sharing Xav.
ReplyDelete/John
Well Xavier, I'm sure you were much nicer with your reply to him than I would have been.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing this person didn't send me that email.
We call folks like that idjuts where I come from.
Joe
Dear Homeowner:
ReplyDeleteThe locks on your doors impede my carrying out the duties of my position (burglar). Please leave your doors and windows unlocked, and turn off your alarm. Also please secure your dog.
Signed, A. Burglar