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Neon_WA

Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7146 Location: Margaret River, West Australia
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:32 am Post subject: ebay pics |
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I know how we all hate the use of online pics for eBay listings
and I know Genna is in the process of adding tags to all his pics to make them more obvious when his pics are used
Well today.. i found that some are getting around this by playing with Genna's pics
Just thought to make forum members aware.. if they were already not
Here is just an example I made of what some sellers are doing
Pic 1 as on CPU-World
Pic 2 as on eBay listing _________________ There are 10 types of people in this world:
those who understand binary and those who don't. ~Author Unknown
http://www.x86-guide.net/Neon-WA/en/collection.html |
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D.8080

Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 1474 Location: Italy
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:14 am Post subject: |
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Sometimes when I ask a question to the seller I always point he might give credits to the site he took it from.
Nobody ever does that.
And I've seen people lazy enough to paste a link pointing here.
Which has positive aspects... in a way.
I've seen pics stolen from here and cpuswe's db.
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donutty

Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 1122
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Simply use a watermark. Hopefully that way lazy people will actually take a picture of their item rather than try to remove the watermark.
But... watermark looks ugly when you are using it for your site's chip pictures
I'm sure there are some anti-linking scripts out there that 'plain joes' won't be able to work around. |
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CPUShack

Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 34259 Location: State of Jefferson, USA
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Marcin

Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 8519 Location: Poland
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| donutty wrote: | ...But... watermark looks ugly when you are using it for your site's chip pictures ... |
Watermark doesn't have to be large. I'm using script with watermark but in 2 seconds I can remove it from all pictures  _________________ Visit ABC CPU - Virtual CPU Museum. |
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JAC

Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 3469
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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It is sad that image thieves know to not link directly to the source image. Oh so much fun was to be had with linked images on ebay listings, and after there is a bid the item description can not be edited, so the link cannot be removed. How we laughed when the source image was changed to hardcore fetish pr0n.
Watermarking = useless
Stupid anti-linking scripts = worse than useless
Advice.. do not get irritated by it. .. or complain to eBay copyright department. |
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smithy

Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 2906 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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I like JAC's solution...let's find one then change the link as he said...genius! _________________ My former Intel collection:
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gshv

Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 7898 Location: Fairfax, VA USA
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JAC

Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 3469
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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ahahaa.. love it... you could also put a picture of a load of stuff and say its all included.... get a bunch of tasty cpus etc.. ahahah.. that would work if he hasnt specified the image dimensions, which I suspect he hasnt. |
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CPUShack

Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 34259 Location: State of Jefferson, USA
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| JAC wrote: |
ahahaa.. love it... you could also put a picture of a load of stuff and say its all included.... get a bunch of tasty cpus etc.. ahahah.. that would work if he hasnt specified the image dimensions, which I suspect he hasnt. |
Thats so awesome _________________ New for 2025! The CPU Shack has a co-processor!
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Neon_WA

Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 7146 Location: Margaret River, West Australia
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Typical on eBay... they must have a web-page shuffling department  _________________ There are 10 types of people in this world:
those who understand binary and those who don't. ~Author Unknown
http://www.x86-guide.net/Neon-WA/en/collection.html |
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Chiefish

Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 2153 Location: Northwest N.J. U.S.A
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Ha hah hah I really like the way Jac thinks on this type of stuff, Much more fun than just getting the sale ended.  _________________ "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." A.E. |
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Neon

Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 1512 Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
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Marcin

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Mixeur

Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 4038 Location: Sochaux, France
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| CPUShack wrote: | | JAC wrote: |
ahahaa.. love it... you could also put a picture of a load of stuff and say its all included.... get a bunch of tasty cpus etc.. ahahah.. that would work if he hasnt specified the image dimensions, which I suspect he hasnt. |
Thats so awesome |
Very good idea !
But the pic uploaded to ebay is mine...  _________________ Register on x86-guide.net to manage and share your collection on-line !
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