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On looking through the site we realised that a new member from Cambridgeshire had blatently copied one of our pictures on this site and placed it on Their (His) own profile. Having complained we have been told by the site that this member has merely been told to remove the picture and not to do it again. Now maybe I am over reacting but I thought this profile should have been immediately removed and the person banned from all Hub people sites. I would love your input on this subject.img src="imagesadultemoticons010.gif"

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Should be named and shamed.

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I have heard of this type of thing happening before, and i entirely agree with your sentiments. HE SHOULD BE BANNED!!

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Since they could establish who posted the photo first, its ownership can be easily determined. Guess they cann't be arsed.

This incident illustrates a problem with this (and similar sites): the large number of men pretending to be womencouples. But if they could get a shag, the poor dears, perhaps they wouldn't do it.

So: perhaps this week people ought to adopt the "give me your old, give me your pathetic, give me your single men", and give them a jolly good shag!

Me first!

Andy

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agree name, shamed and banned can't stand cheats and if he's done it once he'll do it again img src="imagesadultemoticons010.gif"

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People using other peoples photos videos profile text has been an issue as long as websites have been in existence. I have had users doing this on my sites since 1996 when I started running swingers contact sites.

The ideal solution would be to ban the person, but this is impossible to do. If the username was deleted, the user can simply create a new profile under another name. Banning by IP address is not feasible, as most ISP's still use dynamic ip addresses (this means each time you log on, you are given a different IP address) If you were the next person allocated a banned IP address you would be an unhappy user.

Best solution, put your profile name on all your pictures, not across the bottom or top where it could be removed, but across the middle of the picture, where to try and change it becomes obvious to other users.

If you find profiles using other people pictures, use the report this profile link on the profile to alert the site administrators to the problem.

David

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I agree with you David on the fact that these scum would be hard to stop altogether but at least their cheap thrills are not so cheap if they have to re-register and pay again or are the sites afraid they won't pay again.

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That sounds pretty scary, having your photos nicked, didn't think it could happen.

Makes me a bit wary now as to where photos could end up. Is it possible for them
to be posted on other websites i.e. facebook, youtube, etc?

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Yes they can be taken off here and posted on any website and unless the site takes it seriously and stops just issuing a warning and starts kicking people off it will cary on presumably with the sites consent.

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your over looking the good advice David gave which was to watermark your images this will not only stop people taking your photos and using them on other sites but claiming its them on this site

To watermark your photos really isn't that hard and most free photo editing programs have some type of text you can add over photos - no one would be interested in your photos if they had your user name stamped across you

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Shaggy.

I have tried to explain this. We do take the issue seriously, but kicking someone off the site is not the solutions, we have tried it hundreds of times! (and I do mean hundreds of times).

All people do when they are kicked off is create another profile within a few seconds. The site also has to be careful, as sometimes it is the first person on the system who is using the stolen photos. This has happened to Jo and myself on another swingers site called photopersonals. Someone in devon has created a profile on that site using our wording from our ad on here and using our photos. DEspite us claiming to be the real jo and david, showing that we live in spain, showing them our websites, photo personals removed us, not the offending ad.

There is no 100% sure way to stop people stealing your identity. Putting your profile name, not your real names, not telephone numbers, not email address acress the pictures will make it a little bit harder for the picture thieves.

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Totally in agreement, if you put your profile name over the photo then it wont be used, on another site my husband had a guy send us a pic of "his wife", it was a pic of me! lol, we found it funny but can understand the seriousness behind this. There are always going to be the "strange" element out there and kicking them off doesn't work, we have to just doctor our pics to stop it.img src="imagesadultemoticons013.gif"

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There is just no need for this. It gives all the genuine guys out there a bad name (yes there are some of us out there!) and spoils the experience for genuine couples looking to spice up their lives.

re

this happend to us thats why i stopped face pics as are asked for regular,some one in austrailia was trying to be my fiancee on another site.good advice but no ones said how you actually go about safegaurding pics.

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OK. To watermark your pictures is as easy as abc

open your picture in any imaging program, such as photoshop, paintshop, windows paint, or any of the dozens of free image editing programs on the market.

click the text icon in the program, then type your profile name (not your email addy, they will be rejected by the admin team) across the photo. This then makes the picture useless for other people to pretend is their own.

then upoload the picture to the site using the "My Profile" then "Media" options on the top menu.

Job done.

It is now even easier for people to copy fotos, no matter what any website does to try and protect them. If they can be seen on the screen, they can be copied in windows 7 by using the snipping tool. So if you want to make sure your pix remain your own please start putting your profile name on them now

David

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Paul and i had this issue! We have quite an extensive photo collection and had a 'couple' contact us, sending pics that were of me!!! Paul was not amused and neither was i!