The popular image sharing service Imgur is facing millions of dollars in damages for failing to remove a series of copyrighted photos. The website is being sued by Seattle-based photographer Christopher Boffoli whose work remained available on Imgur, a month after he sent a takedown notice.
1.7M emails and passwords effected. Ouch.
Fortunately, I never created an account there, though it's my go-to place for random image hosting. All these incidents coming to light are alarming. I really need to create a throwaway email acct for unimportant registrations to sites.
For someone who has become known as ”queen” of her online world, Sarah Schaaf is outright demure.
The 30-year-old Schaaf is officially Imgur’s head of community — the voice of users, known as Imgurians, and the ear to their requests. But she’s quick to deflect any talk that she deserves credit for the success of the image-sharing site.
Powering porn all over the world. God save the queen (this one, not the old hag in England).
I was asking myself the same thing. I guess you could get still via IMGUR but the real stuff is elsewhere ;)
I really hope that someday Imgur will make some kind of tool that does not compress images when they are uploaded. It's hard to share very high quality images over the internet only to have them downgraded, albeit slightly.
You may start seeing Imgur's logo pop up in more places across the web. The image-sharing site is launching a new tool for embedding images today that'll allow anyone to take an image, its caption, and information about who posted it and how many comments are on it, and place that on another website. Imgur has allowed images to be embedded elsewhere before today, but this update means that a lot more information will now come along with them.
Most imgur images are shared on reddit. It's be great if the original author is credited when it's shared on reddit especially when it gets thousands of upvotes on reddit.
Yeah, this is definitely a boon to the artist. It's always hard for an artist to keep their images from being reproduced without any reference to them. It's nice to have that implemented automatically.
Wow, a month? A site as popular as Imgur should have enough staff to handle a copyright claim in under a MONTH.
Actually, the complaint says that it was more than 200 days from when Boffoli's DMCA takedown complaint was received by Imgur and when the images were taken down. And it sounds like he even got a confirmation e-mail from them saying that the content was removed.
shame on that guy, funny cuz that pic is all over the net for free. good luck suing everyone.