Rips Off: Please Read
As many of you might know that I’m maintaining a STOCK account at deviantart, it came to our (with other deviantart stockists) knowledge that our stocks have been ripped off by an arabic site, with visitors from mostly the Egypt and Saudi Arabia area. The IP address originated from Dallas, Texas for some reason.
The site has stolen many stock images, textures, and brushes from various stock deviants on DA, and who knows from where else.
None of these works were reposted with permission. There was not even a notification of the site reposting the works, and no link back to the original artist either.
There are more than 600 pages of stolen textures, with 9 thumbnails on each page. I found mine (see photo below).
If anyone here knows Arabic, we would all appreciate it if you could contact the administrator of the site at qy9r@yahoo.com The email might not even go through, but it’s worth a try.
Here’s some more info on the website
Any help would be appreciated.
To REDBUBBLERS I’m granting permission for you to use my stocks from there. But be mindful of the terms of use. (posted on the frontpage).
Journal Comments
I’m so sorry this has happened to you. Is there any way you can use an online translator to send them an email?
I found an online translator but it didn’t really help.
A lot of these items have different contributor names on them. You should probably write directly to the website (support or contact us maybe?) explain the issue and give links to those illegal ones on the site, as well as links to your stock.
Not really sure what else you can do.
Thanks Gracey! My fellow DA stockists are also trying to pool us together and see what we can do.
Anyhow, I guess what i’m trying to do here is to let the people know that such thing could happen and that they maybe aware of such.
And for RB, I guess they could only be aware about the site and hopefully none from here will be ripped off.
do a who.is search and u can usually get contact info on anyone that owns or bought any domain.. usually u can find the place where they ordered the domain too.. if u cant get a hold of the website owner, try talking to the people that they bought it from…
oh my! i dont understand these people. why cant just they email the original artists and ask permission to have them posted in the website! its just a simple thing to do really instead of deliberately posting it there without your permission. oh well (sigh), some people are just devoid of common courtesy and common sense. i feel for you sir lee. this is a rampant thing on the web. hope this will be soon settled for you and our fellow DA members. keep on.
Domain Name: GULFSON.COM
Registrant:
Gulfson.Com
Gulfson (Qy9r@Yahoo.Com)
Q8
Gulfson
null,00965
KW
Tel. +65.0000000
Creation Date: 19-May-2005
Expiration Date: 19-May-2008
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.7lm.com
ns1.7lm.com
This is the company that is hosting the website:
http://www.71m.com/home/
Contact them and advise them that one of the domains/clients they are hosting, http://www.gulfson.com/txt.html, is operating illegally. Give them all the details (proof) and I think you will find that the offending website will be removed.
http://www.7lm.com (arabic company) and http://www.71m.com/home/ (german company) are two different entities.
it appears that site is closed down now – I can’t find it.
thank heavens. looks like there was a speedy reaction from those concerns. We can have a little breather now!
Goons. Well as long as they know where they got it from.