Help stopping an image thief?

[frualeydis]

My friend Mylal tipped me off that she had found one of my photos of me on Pinterest, which was taken from a site that was not mine (it's illegal to put other people's photos on Pinterest too, but that's not the issue here). It appears to be some sort of commercial site, but I can't find any kind of contact info, author or anything. I suspect that the rest of the photos there are stolen too.

This is where she found my photo; of me wearing my green bliaut.

So, do any of you more internet-savvy people know of a secret way to figure out who these people are and how to contact them?

Comments

[therru.livejournal.com]

IP-adressen är 174.132.105.34 (enligt mitt Firefox-tillägg ShowIP). Här är Whois-infon: http://whois.domaintools.com/174.132.105.34

Det går tydligen inte att hitta någon DNS-server, men webhosten heter tydligen HostGator: http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml
Kanske kan man kontakta dem och klaga på deras kund?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Tack!

Får väl ta och skriva ett snällt brev till dem och be om hjälp.

/Eva

[jillwheezul.livejournal.com]

Looks like they have quite the selection of photos from the 12th century garb group - probably going back to the lady who shared them on pinterest without thinking it through...

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Lots of them are apparently stolen from Revival Clothing (http://www.revivalclothing.com/) - I have sent them an e-mail.

/Eva

[estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com]

I have told several people now that repinning your photos is completely not on, I told them that they should ask you first...I thought they had. I am sorry I didn't mention it to you. I was worried this was happening.

I do not like pinterest, not one bit.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

If I google this image it only turns up in two places: my web site and that wedding ideas site, so my guess is that they didn't get it from Pinterest, but took it directly from my website. Then someone took it from there and put it on Pinterest and that's too new to show on google yet.

/Eva

[estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com]

I have an issue with that too, but I think that sites like pinterest are making it seem acceptable to just use anyone's stuff like it's their own. That's what I have the biggest issue with.