Seasons Greetings to all
This matter is very much off topic, but I'm writing this in the hope that
there might be someone with some good advice to what would be the best thing
to do.
This summer I took some photos of a former Soviet Whiskey class submarine
(no, it's not THAT Whiskey!) that had been towed earlier this year to my
town Norrköping in the southeast Sweden, and which was on display here as a
museum sub during the summer season. It's not open now of course, but that
huge black "whale" is still there. I used my new Oly C-400Z digital camera,
and I sent five photos to a fellow American that has this site with all the
worlds museum subs. With my permission he put two of them up on an info page
that shows the history of this sub. If anyone's interested the URL to this
page is http://webtagon.com/submarines/Whiskeysweden.htm
The other day I got a mail from him that some common thiefs had stolen my
photos from his site, and that they are now using them in an effort to sell
this old Whiskey sub as an operational sub on eBay!!! The whole thing is a
fraud of course. Those unscrupulous US boat brokers now claim that she can
be made operational quite easily, while the truth is that she most probably
wouldn't even survive a transatlantic towing. AFAIK she hasn't been underway
on her own power since at least 1991.
The URL to eBay where they're trying to sell this sub is
http://cgi.ebay.aol.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=225464310
There are several more photos there that all most certainly are stolen (as
probably also the text info on these subs), but my two photos are the only
one's showing the sub at her present location in Norrköping. I don't mind if
someone download my pictures for personal use on his PC, but
when they are using them (without anyone's permission whatsoever) for a
fraud project...
I thought I'd try to contact them at eBAy to notify them of the stolen
photos. Perhaps there is someone on this list with rather similar
experience, and maybe even have had contact with the eBay people in a
similar matter? This is the first time anything like this happens to me, and
any advice would be much appreciated. TIA.
Per Nordenberg
Kolmården, Sweden
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"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
-- Charles de Gaulle
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