STOP! DONT REPORT WALLPART.COM

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Please read this, especially those who have created journals about this subject!

It's a scam site! 

I have heard/ seen many people complain and post up journals about this site. About how they see their art because "stolen" or put up for "sale".

It's all a lie and a scam! It's a Phishing site!

The phishing worked through a Copyright form that users would fill out to report infringing images. Basically, the artist or their representative would fill the form out, but it would capture additional information and pass it along to the site administrators.

Though WallPart claims to be a Poster Shop, it really functions as a scraper, taking results from Google Image search and sticking the images into a store-like template.

You can prove this easily yourself by searching for unusual things in WallPart and then performing the same search on Google Images, limiting your results to very large images.

You can read more about it here.
peterandcompany.tumblr.com/pos…

This site goes into deeper detail about this site like for example:

(excerpt taken from said site)

I have not found any confirmation that they are actually selling any of the images/prints that appear on their site. Their “search function” is nothing but scraper software, which essentially just loads up hits from Google Images and displays them within a pre-built “shop” template based on the image’s resolution. This is why every single piece on there has a title that is lifted directly from whatever gallery site (FA/DA/Weasyl) or general website was hosting it. Example: They have my title card from my Kickstarter page for the P&C pilot, with the title lifted straight off the description.

- The dependence on Google Images is also why doing a search for your own name will turn up different results each time, or possibly no results at all, even though the listings still seem to exist if you have a direct URL to them. Their “search” function never actually searches their own listings; it even offers the same real-time suggestions that you’d get from a Google search bar. Confusingly enough, performing the same search multiple times often returns different results at different times throughout the day. I was able to find dozens of P&C pages supposedly for sale by searching my name yesterday, but today none of them show up in search results – even though the direct links to the page forms (which I saved) still exist.

Their “Report Violation” link is actually a 100% phishing form. If you fill it out, no matter what you put there, you will be sending them a LOT more than you anticipated. This is actually the main purpose for the site’s existence

and so on....
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As long as you don't directly use the site's complaint feature, you should be fine. instead, you can sign a petition.

www.change.org/p/remove-wallpa…



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CraftyMaelyss's avatar
I did a bit of lookning around and found some information on their website:

dig.whois.com.au/dwhois/wallpa…

If anyone has the know-how to use this information to bust them, by all means go ahead.