Thread on Reptilicious.com

Just wanted to give people a heads up about this person who used my images without permission to create a thread that was pretty pointless, IMO. Makes me not want to even post updated images of my offspring or collection. Time to start watermarking the photos, at any rate.

http://www.reptilicious.com//showthr...8.html?p=37354

Hopefully he won't distribute any other photos that don't belong to him... keep an eye out!

SOOOO lame that dude needs his butt whooped

As one of the owners of reptilicious, i have removed the images in that post as requested by rapture.
We wont stand for people using pics without permission or atleast giving credit :colbert:

what was the point of the thread?

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

what was the point of the thread?

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which one? the one on reptilicious?

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Originally Posted by reptilicious

which one? the one on reptilicious?

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yes :)

What was the basis of him using your images Rapture?

Here...

Read for yourself.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...untitled-1.jpg

haha i just read it. I think he had full intentions of taking credit for those shots. Nice bust Heather :gj:

Wow ... totally pretending that the snakes were theirs and they produced them. I can't believe some people.

Just to let people know...Reptilicious has removed these pics as we didnt know they belonged to anyone else at the time they were posted.
So please dont blame the forum, blame whoever posted the images without permissions.

Snowballs - aka Tim Bowles........:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by reptilicious

Just to let people know...Reptilicious has removed these pics as we didnt know they belonged to anyone else at the time they were posted.
So please dont blame the forum, blame whoever posted the images without permissions.

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Oh no, it was never the intention of the blame to be posted on the forum. You did right by removing the images...

It is about the person, not the forum. :gj:

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Originally Posted by LadyOhh

Oh no, it was never the intention of the blame to be posted on the forum. You did right by removing the images...

It is about the person, not the forum. :gj:

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Ok no probs

I am curious is that the snowballs I am thinking about???

Well Robin answered that question!

He is a known scammer and has been banned from most forums!

http://www.snowballsballpythons.com

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Originally Posted by reptilicious

Just to let people know...Reptilicious has removed these pics as we didnt know they belonged to anyone else at the time they were posted.
So please dont blame the forum, blame whoever posted the images without permissions.

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Noone is blaming you. You can't always control the stupidity that comes out of someones fingers.

You did the right thing by removing them. :gj:

Found this on his site too:

Due to numerous accounts of people stealing content/pictures and posting them as their own, (such as stealing pictures from this site and using them in for sale ads to rip off unsuspecting consumers), we feel obligated to add this section for everyone's protection -- both ours and those valued customers who make purchases from us.

All pictures and content found in this site are copyrighted. Unauthorized use of copyrighted documents, content or photographs without our express written permission is a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). All violations of this Act will be pursued to the fullest legal extent possible under the DCMA.

Anyone that finds our pictures or content being used in obviously false ads or posts, please feel free to contact us so we can take corrective actions as soon as possible. We only want to protect unsuspecting Ball Python enthusiasts.

snowballsballpythons@yahoo.com

Who is this Tim Bowles guy and who is Nigel? They slam NERD, Kev and Kara pretty darn hard in their blog on their website...wow, ugly.... :(

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Originally Posted by starmom

Who is this Tim Bowles guy

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This will give you an idea on who Tim Bowles is http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...ghlight=bowles - http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...ight=snowballs

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Originally Posted by LadyOhh

Found this on his site too:

Due to numerous accounts of people stealing content/pictures and posting them as their own, (such as stealing pictures from this site and using them in for sale ads to rip off unsuspecting consumers), we feel obligated to add this section for everyone's protection -- both ours and those valued customers who make purchases from us.

All pictures and content found in this site are copyrighted. Unauthorized use of copyrighted documents, content or photographs without our express written permission is a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). All violations of this Act will be pursued to the fullest legal extent possible under the DCMA.

Anyone that finds our pictures or content being used in obviously false ads or posts, please feel free to contact us so we can take corrective actions as soon as possible. We only want to protect unsuspecting Ball Python enthusiasts.

snowballsballpythons@yahoo.com

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LOL! What a joke!! :rolleyes:

By the way, the staff at Reptilicious.com has been nothing but helpful to me in this situation. Watermarking my images had crossed my mind before, but now I will definately be doing so. Thanks everybody!

I read the post on fauna as well as his site and this guy seems like bad news. I never really thought about watermarking my images either but now I might consider it.

What I find highly amusing is that Snowballs tag line is "Often imitated".
Great catch Heather!

What a TOOL! :rolleyes:

Wow D.... call me! :D

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Originally Posted by Deborah

This will give you an idea on who Tim Bowles is http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...ghlight=bowles - http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...ight=snowballs

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Oh my. It always makes me feel sad when people choose to become less than their true potential...such a waste of life... :tears:

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Who is this Tim Bowles guy and who is Nigel? They slam NERD, Kev and Kara pretty darn hard in their blog on their website...wow, ugly.... :(

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Let me shed a little light here...I am Matt Lerer and my company name is Ghi Reptiles :banana: just a plug.

Tim has been harassing me for almost 5 years now because he got busted ripping me off and has been basically thrown out of the US herp industry for his actions leading up to and following his scam. Kevin is one of my best friends and so is Kara and a couple of years ago Tim started going after my friends when he realized his attacks on me were easily dismissed.

He filed false complaints against myself and Tony Nicoli...another very close friend...just to try and get us in trouble with the state for having venemous animals in our homes that we never even had. I had a long talk with them and the state said they will take it up the state of Ohio (where Tim lives) if he files any false reports again.

So in a nutshell he is still up to his same old tricks of stealing, scamming, and trying to screw with people at the expense of others. I appologize to Diana because his thread was directed at me as I have a trio of animals which slightly resemble your female and they are 07' imports that I hope are genetic. I post pics of them and these are his replys:

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Normal.

I showed these pics to several breeders today. They all said the same thing. Normals

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The UK forum he is on is a great forum with no problems, really nice members, and a great atmosphere, and it sucks he is pulling his act on them since they don't know about him...not a cool thing to do :colbert:

Matt~ Thank you for sharing. I'm sorry that Tim is doing this against you and people you care about. I care a great deal about Kevin and Kara and was pretty disappointed that someone would post things that were so hurtful and could very much hurt their business should someone read it and not know about the integrity of Kev, Kara and NERD. Try as I may, people continue to be my greatest source of disappointment....guess that's why I have so many animals! Again, thank you for sharing this painful history... Tim must just be a petty tyrant- no more, no less.....

Matt, no apologies necessary. There are people out there who are going to do dumb things no matter what anyone else does. I would, however, love to see pics of the imports you mentioned. :)

Hey Diana...e-mail is on the way.

We also had problems with Tim aka Snowballs on a forum where I am a moderator at. Matt is also aware of this as Tim tried to make Matt out to be a little less than upstanding.

I am glad to see that everything was taken care of D and you will have to help me out on that watermarking thing.

I think that's actually the first thing he does when he joins a new forum. I have heard from so many mod's on so many forums regarding what he pm's them about me that it would make your head spin. Did you know that I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll? Neither did I...

I don't know why he would want this but he told someone that he wants to be the most famous person in the reptile community...even if it means being the most dishonest and most disliked. I think instead he is probably the most forgotten since he has been banned from about 20 or so forums though...

Whoa, sorry to hear about someone stealing your images Diana, more so with a questionable motive.

Im going to be watermarking my pics from now on too, Ive found some of my images all over the web lol

Unfortunately, it might be a necessary evil... talking to Rapture last night about the different known cases of "image theft"... I might be water marking some images, or at least some of my art work...

Thanks a lot Mr. "I help my self to other people's pictures then act like they're mine"... :zerb:

EDIT: Forgot to give Heather some more props for the I-SPY work! :)

i had someone trying to sell me my own snake once, lol
they emailed me asking if i wanted to buy some snakes, i asked for pics (suspecting they were scammers) and they sent me pics of my own snakes!whats worse they were all balls and they said they were feeding on rabbits!!!!

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Originally Posted by reptilicious

i had someone trying to sell me my own snake once, lol
whats worse they were all balls and they said they were feeding on rabbits!!!!

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that i do have to admit is pretty dang funny. lol a ball python feeding on a rabbit lol :puke2::stupidme::laughing:

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Originally Posted by Laooda

Unfortunately, it might be a necessary evil... talking to Rapture last night about the different known cases of "image theft"... I might be water marking some images, or at least some of my art work...

Thanks a lot Mr. "I help my self to other people's pictures then act like they're mine"... :zerb:

EDIT: Forgot to give Heather some more props for the I-SPY work! :)

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Hi Laura~ I think it's a good idea to watermark your art because it is just that amazing! :banana:

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Originally Posted by reptilicious

i had someone trying to sell me my own snake once, lol
they emailed me asking if i wanted to buy some snakes, i asked for pics (suspecting they were scammers) and they sent me pics of my own snakes!whats worse they were all balls and they said they were feeding on rabbits!!!!

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You never know what they will come up with :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Royal_Rodents

that i do have to admit is pretty dang funny. lol a ball python feeding on a rabbit lol :puke2::stupidme::laughing:

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Hi Laura~ I think it's a good idea to watermark your art because it is just that amazing! :banana:

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Originally Posted by joepythons

You never know what they will come up with :rolleyes:

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Yup tell me about it! :O
he was also trying to sell m an albino that was a normal :rolleyes:

Maybe there should be a sticky on how to watermark piccies? i`ll also put it up on reptilicious, only prob is i dont know how to watermark pics lol

I believe you need a photo editing program for water marks. It's easy and can be applied with no hassle.

I know that there is CODE for stopping people from hotlinking your own photos, but watermarking it a great way to stop them from actually using it. (Unless they want to take time to remove the watermark in photoshop)

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Originally Posted by reptilicious

i had someone trying to sell me my own snake once, lol
they emailed me asking if i wanted to buy some snakes, i asked for pics (suspecting they were scammers) and they sent me pics of my own snakes!whats worse they were all balls and they said they were feeding on rabbits!!!!

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That's awesome. You should have agreed to buy and send payment first......and then sent them a picture of someone else's money :taz:

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Originally Posted by Rapture

LOL! What a joke!! :rolleyes:

By the way, the staff at Reptilicious.com has been nothing but helpful to me in this situation. Watermarking my images had crossed my mind before, but now I will definately be doing so. Thanks everybody!

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Get a lawyer RAp! or you could just smack him around a bit! (i have a heavy hand, if you need one!)



PS. Violence is never the anwer.........................almost never

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I believe you need a photo editing program for water marks. It's easy and can be applied with no hassle.

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:gj: This is what I use http://www.faststone.org/

thanks will check that out x

I dont think he was claiming raptures pictures as his own(although he didnt say otherwise), i think the point of his thread has been missed, he was putting raptures project down by saying that the normals that they have produced are worthless.

I personaly think its people like rapture putting time into these unproven traits that makes this hobby great and i think it is a sad day when someon needs to publicly put down a project like raptures or anyone elses dinker for what i can see is no reason.

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Originally Posted by veedubz

I dont think he was claiming raptures pictures as his own(although he didnt say otherwise), i think the point of his thread has been missed, he was putting raptures project down by saying that the normals that they have produced are worthless.

I personaly think its people like rapture putting time into these unproven traits that makes this hobby great and i think it is a sad day when someon needs to publicly put down a project like raptures or anyone elses dinker for what i can see is no reason.

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I think he did more than just that. He was VERY careful to imply that the snakes in question were his, while at the same time leaving plenty of wiggle room to say, "No, I never said they were mine." I've seen him pull similar stunts many times.

And when confronted about that, he says he was just pointing out how misleading to the general public the breeder (actual owner of the pictures) was being for daring to believe the appearance might be genetic. BESIDES the fact that such a critique is entirely uncalled for...it's ALSO entirely FALSE in this case. Those pictures belong to Diana (Rapture)....and we here have followed her breeding projects with this snake and never once has she claimed to have anything other than a very beautiful dinker that she's enjoying working with.

Snowball's story about WHY he used those pictures simply does not match up with the reality of who he stole them from.

Snowballs is being very charming on your site, and it's the charming ones with an agenda and alterior motive who are the most dangerous and detrimental to your site. They know just how far they can go without breaking any TOS, while causing friction amongst the members.

He doesn't have a history in the UK, but - be very, very careful with him if you plan to keep him around. He absolutely lead people to believe those were his pictures, even saying he'd post baby and post shed pictures - how would he know for sure Diana would even post them?

true, i just hate to think that someone can be that scheming. the admin team over ar reptilicious have their eye on things as they stand now.

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Originally Posted by veedubz

true, i just hate to think that someone can be that scheming. the admin team over ar reptilicious have their eye on things as they stand now.

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Sometimes, that's all we can do. Keep our eyes on 'em. ;) I know you guys will do what's best for your site. :colbert2:

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Originally Posted by starmom

Hi Laura~ I think it's a good idea to watermark your art because it is just that amazing! :banana:

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Thank you so much! :oops: *blushes*

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Originally Posted by fishmommy

That's awesome. You should have agreed to buy and send payment first......and then sent them a picture of someone else's money :taz:

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:rofl: Best post I've read today!!!

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Originally Posted by Deborah

:gj: This is what I use http://www.faststone.org/

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Sweet Deb! I'm gonna check it out... Thanks for posting the link! :D