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Originally posted by on-ramp
what do you mean?
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If you hosted a photo on the internet somewhere, anyone who knows the address can put the image on their site, or post it in a message board, or whatever. For example, this image is hosted on a Porsche owned web server. They are supplying the bandwidth for anyone who visits this topic to see it.:
This is the address:
www2.porsche.com/bilder/countryselector/logo_foto.gif
The sysadmin at Porsche could look at their server logs and see that the file is being leeched. Usually this isn't a big deal, but if you have a limited monthly bandwith limitation, if a large photo gets posted on a high traffic site, it can be a problem.
If the other auction was leeching your photo, what you could do is replace the file with a different photo with the same name, from something simple as a text block that says "I stole this picture", or if you really want to make a point, farm animal porn.
In this case, the photo addresses are different, so it looks like he saved your picture and uploaded it. If you want to prevent this, put a copyright watermark on your photos.
Tom