click here
http://www.philtel.com/

you will find same photo on http://mchost.com.

is this photograph common, or philtel.com stolen this from mchost.com. :rolleyes:

The photo could have just been on a stock photo CD that they both used...or one of the sites could have taken it from the other.. :P

I've seen that girl on tonystone.com before :)

looks like a stock photo to me :)

Most of the pictures on on webhosting company websites are taken off stock pages like corbis and comstock. If this is the case, then no one is stealing.

If you take a look at the pictures, they are two totally different ones. The one at philtel, the girl is wearing a headset and the arm of the couch shows more. If the girl wasn't wearing a headseat, you may say MCHost stole it from philtel. Still, since it's two different pictures, we can safely say it was taken off a stock photography site and no one is stealing it off each other.

likey they are stock

but i wonder who had the picture on their site first hehe

Domain Name: PHILTEL.COM
Record created on 1999-09-10



Domain Name: MCHOST.COM
Record created on 20-May-2001.

Yeah.. Just because MCHost is a little more known here doesn't mean the other guy is stealing from him

Yeah, my guess is that mchost *must* have stolen it from philtel. I must say though, they did a splendid job of enlarging the image, making it crisp and increasing the resolution, removing all the text and the headset... :rolleyes:

LOL

Heh, people should investigate further before jumping to conclusioins. Just mho.

People shouldn't even get all worked up about it if it does not even concern their site (not specifically directed at you Mahinder)

If you do stumble across something like this, let both parties invoved know, if you feel that is your duty.

If both hosts don't care, neither should we. Saves a lot of posts. ;)

It's just that I've recently seen some kind of a witch hunt on the subject.

Originally posted by Chicken
Yeah, my guess is that mchost *must* have stolen it from philtel. I must say though, they did a splendid job of enlarging the image, making it crisp and increasing the resolution, removing all the text and the headset... :rolleyes:

:D

Well, we've got the license for 12 months for that photo ...and the original is +1200 pixels wide and almost 5MB in size :)

where did you get your image from?

I saw that image on a very very large communications/phone Web site..just can't remember who :(

Originally posted by Kiwi


:D

Well, we've got the license for 12 months for that photo ...and the original is +1200 pixels wide and almost 5MB in size :)

from where did you license the photo ?. :)

and yes, i didn't said anybody stolen photo from other, while surfing yesterday i came through the philtel web site so i thought tell me friends here.

and yes, if they stolen the photo from one another i don't think its a bad idea. both companies have different area of operations.

hehehe. ;)

Originally posted by Kiwi
Well, we've got the license for 12 months for that photo ...and the original is +1200 pixels wide and almost 5MB in size :) only 12 months? :eek: :confused: :confused:

but how much you paid them for the photo license ?
:rolleyes:

Originally posted by mahinder


from where did you license the photo ?. :)

and yes, i didn't said anybody stolen photo from other, while surfing yesterday i came through the philtel web site so i thought tell me friends here.

and yes, if they stolen the photo from one another i don't think its a bad idea. both companies have different area of operations.

hehehe. ;)

They are licensed from tonystone.com. Depending on the photo, its between $90 and $800+ per license. And i don't think its a good idea to steal photos if you don't have a license, because you could get into trouble if it is reported to the copyright holder, even if you're in a different industry :)

Originally posted by Franky
only 12 months? :eek: :confused: :confused:
You wouldn't leave the same website up for 12+ months, right? ;)

2 words for ya...

licensed content!