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    As to protecting your pictures so that they can't be "lifted" from your site... best bet is some sort of copyright watermark on or in the photo.

    Those javascript popups saying "don't steal our stuff!" when you right click are annoying, and hardly eliminate the problem, as there are other means of lifting a picture from a site than right-clicking. It doesn't really do anything to prevent picture-theft, only to annoy the honest folks. (That is, I accidentally right click frequently. It's annoying enough without having a box pop up to remind me of it )

    Anywho, sorry about the current issue, and I hope it gets resolved easily.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chasem View Post
    As to protecting your pictures so that they can't be "lifted" from your site... best bet is some sort of copyright watermark on or in the photo.

    Those javascript popups saying "don't steal our stuff!" when you right click are annoying, and hardly eliminate the problem, as there are other means of lifting a picture from a site than right-clicking. It doesn't really do anything to prevent picture-theft, only to annoy the honest folks. (That is, I accidentally right click frequently. It's annoying enough without having a box pop up to remind me of it )

    Anywho, sorry about the current issue, and I hope it gets resolved easily.
    Thanks for the tips, we are currently looking into watermarking the photos

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    Quote Originally Posted by Canuck View Post
    Thanks for the tips, we are currently looking into watermarking the photos
    I would be more than glad to help you do that. I miss doing photo editing. You might be surprised how easy it is, since you probably already have a program to resize the pics in the first place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sathor View Post
    I would be more than glad to help you do that. I miss doing photo editing. You might be surprised how easy it is, since you probably already have a program to resize the pics in the first place.
    New photos are in the works and I just might take you up on the offer. Thanks

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    Sorry to hear that, and hope you work things out all right. Kind of gives me the chills.
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    So let me get this right...

    Someone has attended a public festival and has taken a photograph of one of your products. They have then photoshopped it, so even you had difficulty recognising it as your own item. They have then used this photograph to portray goods that they are having produced somewhere else, which they are selling at a fraction of the price of your own goods.

    They have not grabbed the picture from your website.

    Nappa leather is a term that has been in use since 1921 if not earlier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nappa_leather). It is a high quality leather renowned for softness and durability and is often used for car upholstery - because of its longevity.

    If this character is known as Isaac, and I've seen the right ebay listing, then he hasn't claimed that the picture is actually the garment he is selling - nor has he disclaimed this either. He is not claiming that this is one of your products.

    If I am understanding right, then I don't see what he has done that is wrong? Bit lazy, maybe, but wrong?

    Unless he has actually produced an item that is clearly intended to look like one of your design protected* garments and endeavoured to pass it off as such then has he broken the law in the US?

    * They ARE design protected, I trust?

    Without seeing the real thing, which may not look anything like yours, I don't understand what his crime is?

    Are people going to look at his product and say; "Hey that's one of rkilts garments going at a cheap price?" Maybe to an afficianado, but otherwise?

    Sorry, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but if he is able to produce these with genuine nappa leather at $129 perhaps the question to be asking yourself is HOW and whether you can learn from him, as he's obviously found a good source of cheap leather tailoring.

    I'd love to join the lynching party, but I have a feeling you need to change the law first before you take it into your own hands.

    Best wishes, Graham.

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    Illegal? Yes, he is misrepresenting his product. RKilts are unique (protected or not, I do not know) and easily recognizable to those of us that have seen (and own) them. For me to purchase from this person expecting to get what is pictured either I get a direct copy of an RKilt which is as I said - a unique design, or I get a completely looking kilt. By displaying that picture the recieved product would be paramount to fraud, clear cut. Graham, lets say I'm selling you a Reliant Robin sight unseen, I show you a picture from the factory archives of a gorgeous yellow model, yet when you receive it here is what you get:



    Have I not just commited it fraud? It's what you ordered.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ccga3359 View Post


    Wow, I like that car. It is a car, right? Or is it some kind of boat? Still, I like.

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    Robert,
    I feel for you in many ways. There have been many threads and many posts here on X-marks about the "Designed in Scotland" kilts from such vendors as "Heritage of Scotland" all of which come down to Certified Real Atrocios Products. These are poorly made knock offs of tartan kilts.
    These same Pakistani businesses have invaded other areas with their fraud. I am a student of the Great Highland Bagpipes. I searched for a practice chanter that would be of superior quality, that would last me the rest of my life. There are known several very reputable Pipe makers in Scotland and In Canada. The advert was for one made by a very reputable maker in Scotland. The product I received was packaged with very well forged emblems of this maker and the packaging was an exact copy of this company's work. The instrument was poorly made and did not have any of the supposed makers areas of quality. It was another Pakistani forgery.
    I have learned my expensive lesson. I deal directly with the maker of the product I am after. I have since purchased a chanter directly from this pipe maker, and am delighted with the quality and performance. I also purchased a second chanter directly from a pipe maker in Canada that is also to my delight.
    I hope today that most people would use the internet to find the real source of their desired product and go direct, thereby shorting out the possibility of getting one of these frauds. If my desire is for an R-kilt, it will be to you that the order is placed. When it comes to kilts, a reseller can not match the result of a custom bespoke kilt..Period.
    I hope that you can persuade your neighbour to stop the charade. If not, I propose that we get as many X-Markers as possible to take a vacation in beautiful Ontario Province. That we take many scenic walks in his community kilted in quality kilts. Should we find the residence of this person, we should bring together all the Pipers and all the Drummers that we can find. "and bring the pipes together by the rising of the moon."

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