Posts Tagged ‘photobucket’

Update: PhotoBucket Responds

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Personal Experiences, Villains

After nearly two weeks of silence, PhotoBucket has responded to the controversies surrounding its service. However, the reply is not likely to put anyone at ease.



Update: PhotoBucket Petition Takes Off

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News, Prevention

The petition against PhotoBucket has been growing at a rapid pace. Here’s a discussion as to what is happening and what the immediate future plans are.



Artists Express Concern Over PhotoBucket

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 15th, 2008 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, News, Prevention

Artists and photographers, tired of rampant infringement of their work on PhotoBucket, are circulating a petition to push the service to change some of its practices.



Reverse Content Theft: Reflections on Scoble-gate

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Personal Experiences, Punditry

Robert Scoble kicked off a controversy when he was banned from Facebook for, according to him, running a script from a competing social network, Plaxo, designed to extract his Facebook account data and port it over to an account elsewhere.
The response was very divided. Many supported Scoble for what he did while others accused him [...]



Five Media Hosts for Easy Offloading

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 21st, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Punditry

Since yestserday’s post about offloading images and multimedia to mitigate against false DMCA notices has generated some unexpected interest on the topic, I wanted to take a few moments and look at the companies I’ve worked with and discuss why I use the services that I do.
I also want to open up the floor for [...]



Why I Embed My Images

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 20th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Punditry

I pay good money for my hosting and enjoy rock-solid service (well, semi-solid at least) from a reliable hosting company.
Despite running several domains, I am nowhere near my bandwidth limit for my account and am in no danger of going over my allotted 1 TB of bandwidth. I could probably host all of my [...]



The DMCA on 7 Photo Sharing Sites

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 16th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

Previously on this site, I reviewed the DMCA policies of the top 5 social news sites. I found, as might be expected, that the policies on the five different sites varied wildly both in terms of how they were implemented and how robust they were.
Differences between the sites became clear as sites with more money, [...]