Anyone heard of these guys? Questionable websites.

RupertofOZ

It can... but I wouldn't... there are other ways of adjusting pH... and they're usually cheaper...

Charlie

Agreed Rupe, just quizzing. I got a feeling a friend of mine uses it. So you say not for the simple reason of price or it may be harmful in some way??

TCLynx

kinda off topic for this discussion but...

Well it depends on the particular pH up/down product you are talking about. Some can be used just fine, others are likely to cause issues (I've seen one pH down product that include ingredients like ammonia and citric acid and the ammonia caused the system to have way too high an ammonia level then the citric acid slowed the cycling process to boot.)

RupertofOZ

Cost is certainly a big factor... but, particularly with pH down, there are other concerns...

Some pH down products essentially use phosphoric acid, or (in the case of pool pH down) Sulphuric Acid... or even Nitric acid...

Adding levels of phosphate to your system can result in an algael bloom... or high phosphate loading... and high sulphate or nitrate levels aren't necessarily good...

Many of the pH down products are based on Sodium Thiosulphate... which has some significant concerns for health according to some research...

As well as the above... using these style of products can also engender a "chemical" approach to aquaponics that can be a little dangerous IMO...

TCLynx

now they have even gone on to use other people's videos without permission.
www DOT greenhousedesignx DOT com/solar-powered-aquaponics-system/
is one of the aquaponics 4 you affiliates and is using a youtube video of some one's without permission and if you click the link you wind up stuck in the aquaponics 4 you site where you can't get out without all those annoying pop ups.

RupertofOZ

And each of the clicks required to terminate the page... earns the affliate(s) money...

Delgrade

oooo i hate popups

earthbound

Yeah, unfortunately embedding of youtube videos is something thats easy to do on almost any site, just as we embed videos in this forum, they can put them in their blogs, etc.. They can even embed the youtube comments in their pages to make it look like they created the video, AND people have been making comments on their site..

:upset:

arbe

If it wasn't for this forum I would say the Internet suxs.

earthbound

Amazon is getting a little out of control, seems that anyone can sell anything... Someone is selling a 1200 word article on aquaponics for $5.95 ?

And some guy is trying to pass himself off as Steve Diver, and selling the article he wrote about aquaponics for $13.95. This is the one which everyone can download for free from many different places on the internet.. The same guy is selling a number of different articles by Steve Diver

Man, amazon really needs to get it together, surely they just can't just let itself become a haven for scammers to sell pirated material, that's really poor from such a large company....

Bradc

Hi,
As a designer my advice would be that if you don't want people to use your images you need to save them as a flash image, that way the only way they can use it is to get a low res screen grab.
It's a sad state of affairs when you have to do that to avoid image theft though.

Also it might be good to setup a different email address and send the initial email with a very VERY official and stern letterhead from your 'legal team' asking them to cease and desist using images and IP that are covered by the copyright logo shown on your web page.

earthbound

you might want to get onto this one Rupe....

http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Aqua ... 79&sr=8-17

What a great buy... You pay $2.99 for the kindle ebook on aquaponics and the contents are........? The advert you find on-line all over the place for the incredibly CRAP aquaponics 4 you ebook.... unbelievable.... :evil:

Thats your picture on the front though Rupe, so this ones yours... I finally got the other ebook removed from Amazon, had to write to them a couple of times before they did it though......

Dufflight

Might be time to add watermarks to photos on the forum.

RupertofOZ

Scumsuckers....

How did you actually contact Amazon Joel??

earthbound

copyright@amazon.com

They will ask you to do the following I imagine, so may as well provide them with alll the answers straight up..

Quote:

Hello,

I'm sorry for any inconvenience this caused.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Amazon.com's copyright agent the written information specified below.

This procedure is exclusively for notifying Amazon.com and its affiliates that your copyrighted material has been infringed.

- An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;

- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;

- A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;

- Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;

- A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

- A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Amazon.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site can be reached as follows:

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