Chaos Control v2.0

strangers in the wind by Gabrielle Hennessey / © All Rights Reserved

After my post here, I realise that a lot of you would like to know more of the particulars about how I found these sites, what they are, and what you could do to help.

I found the first several sites after Google-searching my name, which sounds vain but is actually something I do relatively often in order to keep abreast of situations like this. I like to see how exactly people are finding my images, because that tells me a lot about why they’re interested in my photos in the first place.

As of publication of this post, I have gotten confirmation back from RapidshareGFX, WarezRocker, Virtual Download, Freesharez, GuruDL, and Uploadbox, who have since removed the content. The last is a file upload site like Megaupload, which a lot of other websites have been linking to as mirrors; actually there were two files on Uploadbox containing my photos, but I haven’t heard back about the second one yet because I didn’t find that one until today.

However, I still have not heard back from downTURK, nor have I heard anything from one person I’ve emailed five times already, who is the contact for BoyGJ.  If you have a bit of extra time and would like to help me out, you can send an email to gaojian8@hotmail.com. This is what I’ve written to him; you of course can write whatever you want, but I’d prefer if you kept it civil:

To whom it may concern,

My name is Gabrielle Hennessey and I am the artist and photographer behind all the images within the RAR file offered on your website here:
http://www.boygj.com/gabrielle-hennessey-photoworks

which were originally posted on my Flickr account, as seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmhennessey/

Every original photo from the above link also includes the words “All rights reserved” under the heading “Additional Information,” found on the right side of each image on the webpage. They have been listed as such since the files were first uploaded.

These images are copyrighted and all rights are reserved; I have not given permission for anyone to offer these images as downloadable content on either the BoyGJ website or anywhere else.However, I have found them here:
http://www.boygj.com/gabrielle-hennessey-photoworks

This content has been uploaded to your website unlawfully and is an infringement of my images’ copyrights. Please contact me at gmhennessey@gmail.com for any other information you may need.

Respectfully,
Gabrielle Hennessey
gmhennessey@gmail.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmhennessey/

I noticed also that works by Benjamin Delacour have been attributed to my name as well. Somewhere along the line, my photos were grouped with his and available for download, and the sophisticated prosimians who are reposting these image files on various websites don’t seem to notice the difference.

Aside from downTURK and gaojian8@hotmail.com, I have also not heard from five other website contacts; just now I went through my “sent email” box to check if the links within each email were still live. Now when I go to them, they all redirect to the Freesharez site (although none of them did this before when I first found them) and give me the message that there is no file available there. Is this smoke and mirrors, or have they all been successfully deleted? (At least for now…)

Thanks for all your support and suggestions over the past few days. If anyone knows of a free webhosting site where I can easily set up a portfolio that doesn’t look balls nasty, I would love to know. I know of WordPress (obviously), and I guess Blogspot is still a choice even though I just switched from there, but any other suggestions wouls be great. I do have a Carbonmade site, but because of the image restriction I’ve made that strictly my fashion portfolio site.