New Escort Site stealing ads from others sites and collecting Hobbyist Data

[Erotiquencounters]

Originally Posted by bizzly1001

Agreed on all points. But these guys don't give a shit and nobody's out there policing this stuff. Your best defense is to watermark your images because it discourages sites from stealing your images. It's really embarrassing for a website to have pictures on their site that have someone's copyright and website on there because it shows the world how and where they stole them from. Furthermore, it's really a pain in the ass to clean up those images and most of the scraper sites are too lazy to take it to that level.

First, most of the pictures people have that are watermarked aren't copyrighted, putting a watermark doesn't make it copyrighted, it's fairly easy to remove a watermark, you're better off have metadata encoded in the picture. one thing people have to realize, you post a picture online it's out there, are they making money off your pictures, are you making money from people contacting you from those sites, do you turn down the people that contact you. do you want to turn off that revenue stream. most likely they aren't selling your pictures and most likely aren't charging people to see your contact information. most likely making money selling banner ads and affiliate links.
In a way it's a win win, you get free marketing and make new contacts.

[Erotiquencounters]

Originally Posted by playwithkate

It is control of image, it is exposure when we have a private life. I don't put myself on just "any" site. It is not someone else's decision to make. I put a lot of time and effort into myself not for someone else to decide they want to make money from my image? No.

You do realized that wherever you post an ad, anybody can view your information, don't post private life info in your ads, otherwise any and everybody can view it, once you post a image on the internet it's everywhere.
do you think these escort sites are screening who sees your info, and they sure don't care who contacts you.
Are you turning down contacts from these sites, have you ever made any money from someone that has contacted you from one of these site, I can understand you wanting to protect your brand, but you do that by having your own site and not posting on other sites your info.
you can view it as free marketing, it doesn't hurt you, and it gives you another revenue stream.

[Mr. GPop]

If the photo is water marked in such a way that removing the mark destroys the photo then that will slow them down.

Meta Data is only view-able with certain viewers and plug ins...

give VisualWaterMark a try.. top price is 40.00 and you can mark the photos multiple times so you can make it very unusable by others.

Embedded data can be stripped out when it is uploaded to a site. I know of such a site that does that..

[Erotiquencounters]

Yeah having a photo covered with watermarks, looks like crap, also a lot of sites won't let you post pictures with watermarks plastered across them, why because they look like crap, or have those nasty face blurred out photos, far better using creative techniques that covers your face and that create mystique or turn your head to the side, and those cut off head shots are the worst. you don't see celebrities photos covered with watermarks, that's because they'll sue you if you use their picture. and removing watermarks and getting rid of blurs is fairly easy if you have the proper software,
also the people that are stealing your photo don't care if they are watermark, because since you're posting your pictures everywhere with watermarks how will anyone know it's not suppose to be there.

[Guest122317-1]

Originally Posted by bizzly1001

Scraper sites like eroticmonkey steal from this site and TER. the people who need to do the take down requests via a DMCA copyright claim is ECCIE and TER but they might just say that the users generated the content. I'd call BS on the claim it was all user generated but it might be a losing battle to make them prove it was real users. I bet they scraped a bunch of reviews to seed their own site.

Either way, providers need to always watermark your images. Here's a tutorial video on how you could do it yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEQUnl7Uul4 or give it to a virtual assistant to do through freelancer.com. I think phone numbers should be on there because it gives you free exposure to more clients potentially but at least put your website on there.

Heck I'm Leary of all ads on any site mostly because very few ladies post ad's on the board sites just use them for verification reasons...hate giving detailed reviews on activities or costs one it's no ones business what I spend and what we do..check the ad if you want to know rates..the other thing is its admitting to buying activities. Lately a lot of ladies are requesting no reviews

[MetalKitty]

I apparently had a profile on Big City that I recently was able to close. EasySex, and others. I only posted on Backpages so far. I'm looking into other options to make my experience more pleasant with less bullshit. I don't even want to know what bogus rumors they're spreading on these sites or what outrageous shit I'll apparently do. Anyone who is dumb enough to believe everything on the internet isn't worth my time anyway.

[MetalKitty]

Originally Posted by Veyda

This is rampant now and continues because there is no one willing to move forward legally. The best way to avoid is to water mark your images to say something like "Not pro Back page or Not A Monkey____ Advertiser" (whatever the name) . This is a classy way of protecting your brand. Last year a site named Adult fax went down. My profile had some other girls link attached that was not mine nor my images. When unasked them to remove and I proved who I was, they'd take down then put the link up again. So she had access to my review too. When I asked them to remove my profile they refused. They were getting sloppy and very biased for clients who were trashing girls regularly. Then they went offline and threads on Reddit appeared to expose the site for being an agency that also stole girls photos.
I contacted over 30 providers and told them and some in turn wrote the site. It's very important to have support within our circle.

Hey, moderators, I think you should give this girl another chance on here. Apparently she got banned for the same reason I almost got banned. All she was trying to do is to stand for herself. While I don't agree with the rule, I respect this site enough to not break your rules again.

[Mr. GPop]

Originally Posted by Erotiquencounters

Yeah having a photo covered with watermarks, looks like crap, also a lot of sites won't let you post pictures with watermarks plastered across them, why because they look like crap, or have those nasty face blurred out photos, far better using creative techniques that covers your face and that create mystique or turn your head to the side, and those cut off head shots are the worst. you don't see celebrities photos covered with watermarks, that's because they'll sue you if you use their picture. and removing watermarks and getting rid of blurs is fairly easy if you have the proper software,
also the people that are stealing your photo don't care if they are watermark, because since you're posting your pictures everywhere with watermarks how will anyone know it's not suppose to be there.

This is easier fixed.

when you go to watermark them for a site (say for Eccie.net) add to your watermark the site name where you posted the photo.

I use Visual Water Mark (premium package is only 40 dollars, allows for 16 templages 250 fonts, can install on 10 pc's and unlimited watermarks, meaning you can Add watermarks to photos you have marked, and it does about 80-100 photos per minute.

you get your photos done, put your information in a watermark but then when you go to post them on a few sites, create a sub directory for each of those sites, add a watermark with that site name then post.

if a 3rd party site gleans them for their own use it will have the site from which it came from.. most use BOTS to grab photos.. and if they grab a ton of photos, that is a lot of "watermark removal" to be done.

[Pixle]

Originally Posted by ShysterJon

Stealing information from a website and posting it elsewhere is as old as the Internet. It shouldn't surprise anyone that information regarding providers is stolen and reposted.

This topic is frequently discussed in the legal forum, such as here:

'Info posted on Another Site W/O My Permission'

Stealing--I would wonder how many on this site have permission to use their avatar. I know nothing as a new user, don't write reviews, and probably know nothing about where you get images. But many look like they have been "borrowed".