Sunday, February 24, 2008

24 Feb 08 - updated list of photo stealing sites on teh internets

Today's additions
incredimazing.com
millionface.com
thebizzare.com

Added earlier
bestpicsaround.com
browsei.com
englishrussia.com
fishki.net
freshome.com
funnytogo.com
funtasticus.com
lolwut.com
myconfinedspace.com
needfornews.com
newsonfire.com
panric.com
pichaus.com
pileofphotos.com
pizdaus.com
torispics.com
tutztutz.com
uaddit.com
wackyarchives.com
yotid.com
youneed2see.com

Friday, February 22, 2008

22 Feb 08 - updated list of photo stealing sites on teh internets

Today's additions
myconfinedspace.com

Added earlier
bestpicsaround.com
browsei.com
englishrussia.com
fishki.net
freshome.com
funnytogo.com
funtasticus.com
lolwut.com
needfornews.com
newsonfire.com
panric.com
pichaus.com
pileofphotos.com
pizdaus.com
torispics.com
tutztutz.com
uaddit.com
wackyarchives.com
yotid.com
youneed2see.com

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Criteria for inclusion in the blacklist

New sites will be included in the blacklist according to the criteria set out below, which have been developed through consensus by reddit users.

Unacceptable practices:
  1. Actively removing or obscuring artist tags - Automatic blacklisting
  2. Marking images that they did not create with their own logos is bad - Automatic blacklisting
  3. Copyright violations - without credit - Automatic blacklisting
  4. Copyright violations - with credit - with advertising - Put to vote
  5. Copyright violations - with credit - without advertising - Put to vote
  6. Using creative commons/public domain material - without credit - with or without advertising - Automatic blacklisting
  7. Using creative commons/public domain material - with credit - with advertising - Put to vote
Acceptable practices:
  1. Using creative commons/public domain photos - with credit - without advertising
  2. Using creative commons/public domain photos - with credit - with advertising - with significant value addition
A site may appeal to have their blacklisting revoked, provided they do not violate conditions (1),(2), and (3) in the unacceptable practices section. A site may make one appeal per month, and then a vote will be conducted to decide the whether or not to delist the site.

Updated list of photo stealing sites on teh internets

These sites steal photos from other websites without giving credit to the photographers. Then they spam social bookmarking sites such as digg, reddit and stumbleupon to drive traffic. The sites are usually laden with adsense. They steal other people's creativity for profit.


Today's removals:
pantherhouse.com

Today's additions:
bestpicsaround.com
browsei.com
englishrussia.com
fishki.net
freshome.com
funnytogo.com
lolwut.com
needfornews.com
newsonfire.com
panric.com
pileofphotos.com
tutztutz.com
torispics.com
wackyarchives.com
youneed2see.com

Alphabetical list:
funtasticus.com
pichaus.com
pizdaus.com
uaddit.com
yotid.com