| Mailinglist: | wwp@yahoogroups.com |
| Sender: | Alex Makienko |
| Date/Time: | 2008-Mar-31 03:45:00 |
| Subject: | Theft |
Dear friends and colleagues, I am sorry about posting this message to this newsgroup but most of us who participate the World Wide Panorama became victims of yet another mass copyright violation. Please look at this web page (it is in Russian): http://allday.ru/2008/03/24/panoramnye_360nye_fotografii_600_izobrazheni... You will see a few well-known panoramas that contain web site LOGO at the lower right corner. No references to authors, no any links to web sites. More - these panos are represented as (attention!) equirects but not as original MOVs. This is pure reverse engineering and is a very serious copyright violation. More, being registered here (do not do it please, I provide all the information to you) you may find nine links to the file sharing resource: http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3817 http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3818 http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3819 http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3820 http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3821 http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3822 http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3823 http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3824 http://www.filehoster.ru/files/r3825 This is 9-part RAR archive that contains more than 600 panoramas which most of us know very well. Also - no links to web sites, no author's information. Nothing! I suppose we have to react somehow, I take this violation seriously. Sorry once again about this offtopic. If you would like to continue discussing this issue let us do it at some other place of your choice. Alex Makienko