So do I...since the day I put the site up. But you have to catch them and find it. I had to just screen all my pics with LatinMax all over it.......what a pain in the a$$ and it distroys the quality of the pics.

Oh well, you gotta do what you gatta do.

 

Or you could just say "f-ck it" and let them do what they want to do. I mean, your car isn't really a secret. If I lived near you, I could go take a photo of your car and the photo would be MY property to use as I wished, right?

I still think it's that they used the pics without permission, but also think that you're going a bit overboard with putting LatinMax over everything. I mean...you have a cardomain site for people to see your ride (which looks good, by the way)...so what if they see it on some lame webpage other than yours....its almost like a complement saying "your car is the best, so we want a pic of it to sell our stuff" That said, he should take it down if you ask/tell him to.

yeah, it's stupid....but just giving the "alternate view" - remember, I wrote the guy an email in your defense, so I'm on your side.

 

That's cool and I understand your point. But, they don't even sell that part as it has been modified considerably. So what is the point of advertising something you can't and won't be able to send your customer.
And yes I would be flatter...if they asked. I just want recongnition for all my hard work, not an attitude.

By the way I have posted this on so many other forums and the stolen pics are coming out of the wood works. Bad news travels fast and there are some really pi$$ed off car owners. I am sure they might get tired of the coverage they are getting.

 

that is really gay, i hope they realize how much business this will cost them, better yet, i hope his sorry a$$ goes bankrupt.

 

yeah, I agree with you and realize the extra work you did on them....just throwing out a "devil's advocate" position for the sake of argument. I'm 100%on your side of who is "right" and who is "wrong" in this, trust me.

 

You didn't notice that he registered and didn't even have the ***** to put his real name or location. Look back (post 27) he is bobby123

 

The only thing funnier than that ^^ is the fact that this dolt pulled some BS out of his backside and everyone just assumed it was for real. Come on! If Canadians are free to steal any/all intellectual property on the internet, you'd better believe that the RIAA and MPAA and a whole host of similar organizations would be crawling up the Parliament's backside.

Since this guy doesn't seem even remotely reasonable, I'd say your best bet is to work with the domain host to shut his site down. Meanwhile, I say continue to make his life miserable. Also realize that being an international crime technically means the FBI can get involved (but they probably have bigger fish to fry).

Best of luck with this. I've had IP stolen from me too, so I know what you're going through. I'm totally rooting for ya.

 

Gosh I wish I saw this thread sooner.

Whatever photos we post on our cardomain pages or anywhere else, is our property. It's common courtesey and best business practice that if any merchant wishes to use any of our photos for adverstising purposes, they MUST obtain permission first. We produced those photos and posted it so everyone can see our pride and joy. We did NOT intend for our photos to be some stock photo library. Polite or not if we do request a merchant to remove our photo(s), it MUST be removed. If not, legal action can be taken against the merchant.

Now I've seen merchants ask for photos to advertise there products and 99% of the time we all submit pics because we like the product and we want to support them anyway we can. Technically a usage fee should be issued for photos used in advertising. But because merchant's ad budget is minimal they request for loyal customers to volunteer their photos, which is fine as long as there is a mutal agreement.

Now I just read the privacy policy on the cardomain page. If I read it correctly, we should be protected from incidents like these, unless cardomain provides the information. Futher review of all image hosting providers should be examined and questioned just so that if this ever happpens again, we can quickly respond and resolve the situation.

My 2 cents and then some.

 

I got a pretty good response to my email from them. Basically the same as NismoMax80. Looks like the guy who wanted his pics taken off was a little bit rude in asking. I could see how someone would be offended or defensive when threatened with a lawsuit right off the bat.

 

He asked us to remove them in a correct way. It's now over

Thank you for 2 of you who boughts maxima kit yesterday. I guess you've seen our website with this free publicity !

 

Curious to who bought the kits. Would be a shame if that is a ploy to get back into good graces.

wanna become a sponsor?????



Who needs Comedy Central... I just come to Maxima.org

 

.Org drama and dumb posts FTW.....

 

They changed it. I win.

 

Haha, glad things worked out for ya. Sweet kill!

 

So now you just have to get to the origin of the evil, find out all the other distributors they gave your pic to, battle them, and work you way up to the boss for a final fight

 

^^

10 f*cking characters

 

 

Just reading this post makes me disgusted. I'd like to see somebody use my Max for advertising, it has no kit, the headlights are AE modded and they can't use it for the wheels since they're rare now. Quebec laws are a pain in the a$$ since they do things differently than the rest of Canada in many respects.

LEMAR

 

But, the web provider is in Cali and they had to remove it. hehe

 

Any progress on the "5000 other distributors"?

The road ahead is long and arduous, but the quest will be very fullfilling... Your 1st battle is won, but there are many, many more before the war is close to ending.

 

Is it possible to report him to the Better Business Bureau or even the Public Service Comission? Although you technically don't have the picture copywritten I would imagine there's a law that protects the original owner. It's like lets say I take a pictuore in a party of a girl who had a bit too much to drink and than decide to get paid and give it to some website. I would imagine that somewhere in there either I or the site that bought the pics would be held reliable for not recieving acknowldgement of this girl. Same thing could apply, but than again I'm no lawyer.

 

^^ do you think paparazzi get permission?? some of them get threatened and assualted.

 

Yea but you hear many of those paparazzi's or magazine's that buy the pictures being sued from the artist(s). So I guess there might be some law there that would protect him.

 

Well, first off, congrats on your car making it to be THE car for their site. It looks cool... If you think about it is cool if they picked your car for their advertisement, but they should have asked you first before posting it... Nevertheless, I'm happy for you that you got it resolved, and not all Canadians are bad

 

i would think it would be a complement if someone used my car for their site.. but only if they asked first.... and i would want 10% profit..LOL good thing you won though!

 

True but there is alot of custom stuff done to my car. I had one company offer to sposer me, but there is really nothing left for me to do to my car.

I know that. I have family in Canada.

One small note: the part that they advertising they don't make because it is custom, so I don't know what their custers would say when they receive something they didn't order.

 

The PimpHand is strong within the Maxima Community.

 

I just sent an email stating the word is getting around fast and he better start listening to us.

 

do i need to send you an email that this over 2 years old?

 

lol, i was about to say. you can get a hid kit for like 2-3 now.

 

oher familiar Maximas are on there now

 

I'm sure no one from the .org bought your kit. Seeing as everyone here was saying how f***ed up it was for you to steal his pictures. I'm happy you won this latinmax .

 

You are so hardcore.

 

As a member of maxima.org, I don't appreciate the people who emailed that company and used "maxima.org" to support their email (many members spending lots of $). If you have a personal issue with the company, keep it personal and don't bring maxima.org into it.

Dr J

 

It looks like an old thread has been revived!

 

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...


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that white max on there is hideous..