Regarding the image hosting, I think I know what the problem may be. Blogger doesn't actually host the images (not many at least). The images are actually on their Picasa service. You may want to contact their DMCA team and see if they can be of more help:

http://www.google.com/picasa_web_dmca.html

Stupid? You bet. This is a big part of why Google needs a centralized DMCA process to handle all LOBs. They don't do that and, as a result, it can be difficult to tell which product you should contact.

Think about it, you could reach out to Picasa, Blogspot and Google Search all for the same case. Big headache.

Regarding Disqus, I've forwarded the issue to their team. I'll let you know what they tell me. Thanks for the heads up!

Regarding the image hosting, I think I know what the problem may be. Blogger doesn't actually host the images (not many at least). The images are actually on their Picasa service. You may want to contact their DMCA team and see if they can be of more help:

http://www.google.com/picasa_web_dmca.html

Stupid? You bet. This is a big part of why Google needs a centralized DMCA process to handle all LOBs. They don't do that and, as a result, it can be difficult to tell which product you should contact.

Think about it, you could reach out to Picasa, Blogspot and Google Search all for the same case. Big headache.

Regarding Disqus, I've forwarded the issue to their team. I'll let you know what they tell me. Thanks for the heads up!

First complaint – you have to use their onsite form. That's fine … it's a little weird the way it requires the info formatted but I can deal. However, once you submit it, you get no confirmation. Ideally it should email the whole thing to you WITH the autogenerated case number. Because after that they'll email you the response with just a case number and no context except for the date you filed it. (And I file stuff with google adsense all the time.)

The first filing I did was rejected outright because I didn't fill in the form properly.

The second one I filed was rejected because “Google has decided not to
take action based on our policies concerning content removal.” And they gave no additional information.

Part of my issue with google & blogger is their photo hosting. A blog might be well within fair use with reposting a photo, but then it gets hotlinked on forums & crazy livejournal webstores. If I just give blogger the URL of the image, they won't do anything about it. If I tell them where it's hotlinked, they say that's not their website.

I'm stumped. And irritated.

*Oh, and disqus is positively irritating … it won't let me sign in and it won't let me post because I already “exist” … may as well just dump this whole comment.*