Talk about frustrating! As I mentioned earlier in my about me, I am a member of many community sites. One site allows me to post some of my more revealing images (nooo not totally nekkit) but erotic for sure. Anyway, earlier in the month, I was notified by some community site members that they had seen one of my images on an amateur adult website. Now, not only had they stolen the image but had the nerve to mark it as their own so no one else could steal it....got nerve?
I was HEATED! My images are copyrighted by either myself, my photographer or a jointly. Soo I file a DMCA Infringement letter (Digital Copyright Infringement Act) against the site. I send this not once, not twice, not three times but four times to the sites owners and management. Protocol states that if they are disputing the claim, they are supposed to notify me in writing or just remove the image. So I sat....and I sat....and I sat...nada. I then phoned this deadbeat asshound.......no answer. Called again...no answer. Grrrrr!
I was so finished with the site owner that I contacted the sites hosting company. I did this for two reasons, the first of course is to have my image removed. Secondly, the site works on a submission basis, they have no way to verify that their models are over the age of 18. So, on November 15th I talk to Mark who requests additional copies of the DMCA. I send one to their copyright department and another to their abuse department. I wait...and I wait...and I wait, did I mention that I waited? Goose egg.
I started to wonder if either the site owner or the hosting service realized that they are in violation of the law. So, out of goodwill I called the hosting company again. They showed my DMCA on file but had no idea why it had not been acted upon. It seems that they were awaiting a response from the site owner. WHAT!?? Did it dawn on them that maybe they were contacted because of the site owners inaction? This is getting better by the minute huh? They are waiting for the fox to tell the farmer how many chickens are missing!
I finally told Jordan, the nice man that I spoke with today that this is my last attempt to have these images removed without the benefit of counsel. I hope he listens.
I'll update this when I know more............
The Update.....For now, they have changed the permissions on the image so it is not viewable by the public. They are still trying to contact the site owner for it's permanent removal and if he does not respond, they will remove it for me.
"Contagious shooting" is what the NYPD calls the phenomenon formerly known as "Group-think". The New York Times defines Contagious Shooting as "gunfire that spreads among officers who believe that they, or their colleagues, are facing a threat. It spreads like germs, like laughter, or fear. An officer fires, so his colleagues do, too."
This is the expert explanation of why police officers fired multiple times in New York over the weekend, killing Shawn Bell just hours before his wedding. According to the reports, Bell and friends became involved in an altercation with undercover police officers in a strip club during this bachelor party. What happened next is pretty sketchy as I've read a few articles on this and the only things that are really consistent are the altercation and at some point the vehicle that Bell was in hitting a minivan, followed by the shooting.
The fact that Al Sharpton has arrived at the scene tells me that they will try and play the race card on this and that bothers me. Hell, Sharpton bothers me...but that's another blog entry. Camera is rolling...Lights, Camera...Sharpton.
Anyway with that in mind. It's reported that five police officers fired 50 rounds into the vehicle that the bridegroom was in. How does that happen? What is now being called "Contagious Shooting" is a variation on a 1972 theory by Irving Janis. Janis defines group-think as "A mode of thinking when people are engaged in a cohesive group, when the members striving for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action."
This same theory is also known as "mob mentality" and now "contagious shooting". When do peoples actions become "responsibility related"? It seems that the experts are so fast to label and analyze behavior yet are not as apt to encourage people to take responsibility for their own actions. At what point do we, as a society use reason in conjunction with accountability? Simply stated, continue to understand why people do what they do but still encourage them to not let it be a crutch and admit when they have made a bad decision?
Click Here To Read The New York Times Article
I have my tag line as "Not just another pretty face" for a reason. If you have read my profile, you'll see that I'm on a number of different sites. Most of them are based on appearance and in all actuality, I'm unsure if they give a damn that I have a brain in my in head or not.
I am a freelance model but I have a full time job that pays the bills.......mmmmk for the most part anyway..LOL. I'm an office manager for an advertising, marketing and branding agency. I am also a full time, pre-law student with a second major of psychology. I guess that's fitting as it takes a stark raving lunatic to carry a double major on purpose.
I live in Missouri and absolutely loathe cold weather, cooked carrots, liars and players. I don't have time nor patience for any of them. The cold I have to deal with but that doesn't make me like it. I also have two dogs that I just love. Both my dalmatian and my pekingese have personalities of their own and they are the true diva's of the house. Now only if they could get a true jobby job, we'd be all set.
Nice to meet you and I hope you'll introduce yourself to me as well.
