I felt sorry for my friend, but didn't think much more of it, till someone pointed out he had done it to ALL flickr accounts, including mine. I went to check this out, viewed one of my photo sets and got the unique set id from the URL (this is the long number in the url) and put it on the end of his URL - hey presto, up came all my snapshots of friends and places.
I told my partner about this as he also had flickr content up there, and he then reported it to Yahoo (who own flickr) under the subject of "Site is scraping Flickr and republishing the images unser Common Creative Rights"
His email read as follows: (if you are going to do the same, feel free to copy and paste substituting your details for his...)
Dear Sir,
I do not know if you are aware of this but the site below is scraping flickr accounts and republishing them on his website under the CCL licence, he even admits that some of the items are stolen.
For example the images on :-
http://dannyman.toldme.com/photos/&photoset=72157612573201206/
http://dannyman.toldme.com/photos/&photoset=72157612573201206/
http://dannyman.toldme.com/photos/&photoset=72157612573201206/
All belong to myself (as fortyniner / fortyniner beck - I am not sure of the exact user name).
You may be interested to know that there are large plurk conversations going on at the moment over this theft, I was notified by my partner who also has some items "stolen".
Is there anything that you can do to stop this?
Regards
It seems to have worked as the site concerned is now displaying this message
"Sorry, photos are offline right now. I have a bug to clear up with how my software uses the Flickr API. You can visit my photos directly at Flickr."
The email address to complain to is copyright@yahoo-inc.com
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