Quote from: Gleb Gamow on April 03, 2015, 08:12:59 PM

We're not talking about stock photography, but images purposely gleaned from various other websites.

Just to clarify, when I say 'stock photography' I don't necessarily mean photography appropriately licensed from any one of the dozens of stock media sites. While that's the legal and ethical route, there's certainly plenty of google image searching for what one's looking for and grabbing that if it's seemingly plastered all over.

e.g. the datacenter image is found at networksolutionexperts.com as you point out. That's not the source, though - if you overlay the two (scale the sfards one up a bit) you'll find that the sfards one has more of the picture in the bottom that's cropped out from the one at networksolutionexperts.com. The same image (various crops/sizes/manipulations thereof) is also easily found at dancoelectrical.com, transientpowersolutions.com, virtuallymikebrown.com, poweranddata.info, idce.com.cn, conduitnw.org, indiamart.com, comparex.be, ictassetrecovery.com, cccassoc.org, nocser.net, cabenolan.com, technologymovers.net, veridata.com.ph, security.engin.umich.edu, community.spiceworks.com, theregister.co.uk, collage.co.za, igts.in, fmknet.com, facebook.com/ACCL.Ltd, thesundaytimes.co.uk, blog.zoha-islands.com... and that's just pages 1-5 on google. Speaking of which, the original source appears to be said Google, as most proper attributions lead to Google with the caption suggesting it was a photo inside their Mayes County, Oklahoma data center.
( Note that I'm also not saying that this isn't a proper stock photo. I have no idea if Google licensed it freely or licensed it to a stock photography service to sell, etc. Some attributions mention EPA, but I can't spot it in their catalog - though I used filters as i'm not going to wade through thousands of results. Edit: The chip image, for example, is available as a stock photo - https://www.inmagine.com/amrf378/amrf09503010370-photo )

Again, though, that doesn't mean they shouldn't attempt to replace stock photography when they can.

Quote from: Gleb Gamow on April 03, 2015, 08:12:59 PM

Correct, that no moneys has been asked yet, but that doesn't stop people inquiring of them if they would take moneys early via other channels since their copy, et al., is more or less coming across as viable.

Fair enough - but those investors would hopefully do their due diligence beyond salivating at/getting shot down by a bitcointalk thread