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NEWART.PHOTO is an experimental, extremely secure site (disguised as your regular photo site) designed to protect humans from censure, government spying, AI and all kinds of "automated scam messaging".
We can let our members automatically message any insecure site we can hack into, but, because we speak true security and establish the best security practices no hacker, no government, no AI can break into our site.
If you need a guarantee, that you are communicating with humans, here you have it. Read further to know how we achieve this.
Our site enables you to exhibit ANY image directly accessible in the Internet (by means of the HTTP or HTTPS protocol) without exposing Its address to the end user.
If you have no idea, what it means, think about it this way: there are many sites out there which take your images and assure you that, once uploaded to their servers, the images are protected. But it is not the reality. Any image uploaded to such sites is directly accessible to anyone, who knows Its exact location (or address). These addresses are being carried around by any HTML page which displays your images and are extremely easy to pick up because they are human readable text.
NEWART.PHOTO takes the address of your image from you and displays the image without making the internet browser and the end user aware of Its real location. In other words, you see the image as if it was uploaded to our server, but the image remains physically where you have uploaded it initially, i.e. it remains on the server of your respective unprotected site. As long as your unprotected site gives it away, NEWART.PHOTO will be always capable to display it. The difference here is important: when NEWART.PHOTO displays your image, the end user knows not, where the image actually is. Which means true protection of your image from further direct linking.
Why is direct linking a bad thing for an image that has VALUE? Because the directly-linkable images are technically not "stolen", but only "displayed". Direct linking is the "open door" which makes the fact of theft not obvious.
Bottomline: don't use any site which allowes direct linking, if your images have any VALUE. Trust your images to NEWART.PHOTO, following our instructions to the letter.
NEWART.PHOTO offers you two different participation paradigms: the free paradigm and the status paradigm.
If you chose the status of an Artist, a Model or a Crafter, your sets of images randomly appear among the 8 ever changing images on top of every site page. All registered site users can see them. If you allow general access to them, even not registered site visitors will be able to see them. This means, there is no need for you to promote your Art throughout our site: your art promotes itself even when you sleep. For you, this means that your images just work and you have enormous amount of time freed for other activities. In order to achieve sufficient levels of randomness and exposure, there will always be not less than 500 most popular artists, whose images will be chosen for rotation in the 8 image site top header. Our system of rewarding an artist with points will create the ground for selection of these 500 artists. Your artworks will be randomly exhibited on top of every page instead of being hidden from sight by default (like at Flickr.com) and only being foundable when explicitly searched for. If you want to get into the 8-images header, do submit your most important 20 images here. But there is more! A possibility to bypass our selection exists: read here about our free paradigm.
Our hierarchy begins with the Administrator: one or more persons at various times who actually run this site from technical standpoint. Administrator can formally invite Artists, Models and Crafters to become site members. The only valid address you can receive an invitation from is administrator@newart.photo. If you want to bypass the Administrator's decision, you can register as a Free site member.
The first type of status site members are Artists. They can register directly or they may apply for reviewal which, if positive, will result in much bigger wealth of points. Artists can organize Contests and participate in them, exhibit their art or sell it, they can publish all kinds of articles, they can buy anything being on sale at our Marketplace or at our Auction. Their artworks get immediately exhibited among 8 ever changing topheader images.
The second type are Models. Models are either invited by the Administrator, or they have applied for reviewal of their portfolios and were accepted. Only invited or accepted Models can publish their portfolios in the "Models" section of NEWART.PHOTO. This section was specifically designed to be conveniently used by model agencies, advertising agencies and other companies and will host various types of model portfolios. Models can have an unlimited number of portfolios and can also earn money and/or points by exhibiting their new and exclusive content.
The third type are Crafters. Crafters are makers of handmade, customised goods that are produced in single samples or small batches. This can be anything provided other site members can make use of it. Crafters are either invited or asknowledged by the Administrator. Crafters receive 10000 points upon registration. Crafters sell their products and benefit from the steady stream of new visitors generated by our website activities such as Contests. Crafters can also sell in our Auction and, if they have their own company, on the Marketplace.
The fourth type are Free site members. Free Site Members register and receive 2000 points upon registration. They are free to build their presence on our site in scope of our free paradigm which includes Access Limitation and Direct Link Protection. Free Site members can do what they want and bear no responsibility for what they do. When Free Site Members run out of points, they can still post new artworks replacing their existing sets.
Companies can advertise their products on NEWART.PHOTO. These ads will pop up above hi-res images in so-called adveritising overlays. These can not be ignored by the end user. To see how an advertising overlay may look like, try to open any of the 8 topheader images in the original size. Advertising overlays are fully customizable and may be changed in real time. There is a feature rich control system made for the Advertisers. There are also standalone ad blocks. Company representatives, please, contact the site Administration using this form in order to have your Advertiser account setup manually and receive your login and password. You can read more about the advertising on NEWART.PHOTO in this article.
Our Artists and Models as well as Free site members can earn money directly from site advertisers. In order for an Advertiser to find the most appropriate content for their products as well as for an Artist or a Model to be able to find the Advertiser who would pay them for using their creations as a medium for advertising we have elaborated the keywords and key-phrases matching software which will help to maximize the income for both sides. The Advertiser gets the increase in sales by chosing the most efficient advertising agent. Every product gets the most out of advertising when it is being advertised to an appropriate target group. Read here how an Artist or a Model could find the Advertiser and vise versa.
We use our own implementation of "Secure cookies" allowing us to ensure that every time a user changes their IP-address, this user will have to re-login. The cookie we set into your browser contains your unique session identifier which is ciphered with a cipher key derived from your IP. Read more about our implementation of "Secure cookies" here.
In order to obtain a session with our server, a user must enter some non-arbitrary text into our bot-checking form using physical keyboard. This enforces the "humans only" policy, preventing automated site crawling, page indexing and AI initiated sessions.
When the IP-address of a user changes, this user agrees to re-login in order for us to be sure that his session with our server was not high-jacked and brought to another machine. Before logging in, the pevious cookie from NEWART.PHOTO set in the browser must be deleted either manually or by clicking on a link we provide. At any given time, there may be only one cookie set in your browser by the NEWART.PHOTO server, namely a session cookie.
Periodically, we are going to change our user's passwords (which are always generated by us) and send new ones to the e-mails our users provide. Please, ensure that you always have access to the e-mail you had registered with.
Any bots as well as any software designed for automation of posting will not work with our site. Our users can be sure that they all are real people and not a single publication was posted to our site automatically. Every form on our site is protected (read here about Form type I and Form Type II protection). Even under a valid session a site user can setup no automation whatsoever. Every post is therefore genuine.
We silently delete all propaganda.
Apart the above, there is no censorship.
The Procedure of sales at the matching auction for collectibles, crafts and photographic equipment which is an integral part of NEWART.PHOTO provides for complete Buyer satisfaction or full refund.