There is nothing worse than finding someone online using your photo's but claiming its them and your the one who's using there photo's in hopes of justifying themselves. Thankfully I have the originals and the witnesses to prove them wrong but still, using someone else's messy slapstick pics for there own posts on fetish and contact sites is fast becoming a problem.

I would strongly suggest folk start watermarking the photo's with there usernames, I logged on to Instagram last night and on another male fetish site to find old pics of my mine being used by someone. needless to say they have since been removed! I've not seen it happen on here yet but I am sure it happens elsewhere.

Has anyone else had this problem?

This is something I was just thinking about because of this post https://umd.net/forums/whats-with-the-massive-influx-of-fake-ac

I see fake accounts frequently on every social media platform and umd where they use photos to claim an identity. Every time I am just baffled because people don't watermark their images. People should also make a statement in their profile to not distribute the photos. I have contacted people who's photos were stolen before and it is a pain. If they had both a watermark and a statement saying to not share photos off the platform, then it is a lot easier to prove their photos were stolen and other accounts were fake.

The trend I see is that people steal photos and then try and resell stolen content from sites like onlyfans, like nudes, through dm. So people use stolen content to scam or profit from pirating.

Just imagine if someone sent nude photos of you to minors, and police investigate and find your photos. Or imagine if someone used your photos to catfish and then ended up murdering. These are probably very low risk but I'd bet they could happen or have happened.

That's a pretty hyperbolic statement. I would be willing to place a fairly large wager that losing control of your bowels in front of strangers while Nickelback plays covers of Dave Matthews Band tunes on poorly maintained instruments would actually be worse than finding out that somebody had posted your photo pretending it was them.

I see what you mean
https://unsplash.com
these folks open source there catalog
Havent had the problem but I I think you on to something with the watermark

I definitely watermark my images. My reasoning isn't as much for copyright protection, I'm aware people are probably going to yoink my images and post them somewhere else. My hope is that if somebody sees some of my work, they may think "gee I sure would like to see more like that" and then look me up and hopefully purchase some content. If somebody is properly motivated, they will crop out a watermark, or in the case of video use an AI tool to remove it. But most pirates are somewhat lazy and just paste their copies everywhere they can.

I definitely thought this was about military stolen valor...(backs away slowly) lol

That's a whole different ball game to this thread Puppy, but speaking as someone who's also ex military I'm sure you and I have both seen our fair share of wanna be's or those playing dress up having claimed to be ex forces.
( Happy to chat about this in private if you want )