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Hi All. I Just found one of my images on this site
http://www.win7wallpapers.com/
They offer very hi-res copies for free download. No idea how they managed such a good copy.
You might want to have a look and make sure they dont have yours.
I have sent them a mail asking to remove it.
Not sure what else to do but its a little worrying as they are good quality images.
Gary
Same thing happened to me last week on this site...http://www.desktopnexus.com/
Sent them a mail and it was removed but while on there I found two other images I recognised & sent off a couple of PM's.
Cheeky so and so's
Did you actually trawl through 36,325 images to find out?
I lost the will to live after the fist dozen or so pages!
As soon as an image is on a site it may be nicked by someone else.
apparently even those that are supposedly protected in some way can be "borrowed".
A colleague at my local camera club is a bit of a computer geek,he runs our processing courses, so we set him a challenge to "hack in" to some supposedly protected images.
by the time we had a teabreak he had got into the first photo and by the next weeks meeting all 20 photos were up and running with no protection.
He admitted that it had taken some sophisticated programmes but would not say how he did it, professional pride I suppose.
This must be a nightmare for professionals that rely on there web sites to attract clients.
What about the profits they may have made from it though - simply "removing" it isn't enough in my opinion!
Quote: apparently even those that are supposedly protected in some way can be "borrowed".
I think that your friend may have been winding you up somewhat, rather than it being professional pride.
I've yet to encounter an image on the net that I can't download in a matter of seconds, using nothing more sinister than the everyday things that everyone's got on their machines.
Firefox offers a very simple little tool for that with their view page info, any image off any site in seconds. I'm afraid if you post it online in any way it can be taken even from sites that use flash (although then they at least can't be stolen by iPad users 
)
Quote: (although then they at least can't be stolen by iPad users )
. . . Screen shots?
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