Bullion.Com (bullion.com) & Copyright Theft
Bullion.Com (bullion.com) Michael Castello of Palm Springs, California, USA is yet another dishonest website who has used our copyright images without permission.
Copyright Theft is Dishonest - Can You Trust This Site?
Using other people's copyright images is illegal, it is dishonest, and it is unethical. Using the hard work of a fellow dealer or website owner to sell the same goods or advice in competition with him demonstrates an extremely low standard of ethics. We would not recommend anybody to transact business with this person or company.
What's Wrong?
Bullion.Com are using a number of our high quality copyright coin photographs on their web pages, including their "Gold" page, "Isle of Man Noble Platinum Bullion Coin" page, "10 Fun Facts About Gold " page, "Directory of Gold Bullion Coins" page, "Directory of Silver Bullion Coins" page, shown here, together with a significant number of other pages.
These images are our copyright property, and are being used without our permission.
Their "Austria 100 Corona (restrike)" page appears to use a photo from usagold.com. Most of the other coin images on bullion.com also appear to have been sourced from usagold.com; there is no acknoweledgement or attribution, and we do not know whether these images have been used with permission of usagold.com or not. We suspect not!
Other information on bullion.com's site can be found, often verbatim, on other websites such as onlygold.com; leading us to suspect that this
has also been pirated.
Bullion.Com's Who We Are Page
Who would have thought such honest (although they do not claim this) respectable
people would resort to stealing images from their competitors?
Domain Lookup
Domain Name: BULLION.COM
Registrar: MONIKER
Registrant [1121511]:
Michael Castello
webmaster@traveler.com
Castello Brothers LLC
500 East Amado
Suite 512
Palm Springs
CA
92262
US
Administrative Contact [1121511]:
Michael Castello
Castello Brothers LLC
500 East Amado
Suite 512
Palm Springs
CA
92262
US
Phone: +1.7604162526
Fax: +1.7604165848
Billing Contact [1121511]:
Michael Castello
Castello Brothers LLC
500 East Amado
Suite 512
Palm Springs
CA
92262
US
Phone: +1.7604162526
Fax: +1.7604165848
Technical Contact [1458067]:
Michael Seven
500 East Amado
Suite 512
Palm Springs
CA
92262
US
Phone: +1.7604162526
Fax: +1.7604165848
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.RACKSPACE.COM
NS2.RACKSPACE.COM
Record created on: 1997-06-15 00:00:00.0
Database last updated on: 2009-02-15 22:34:03.273
Domain Expires on: 2013-06-14 00:00:00.0
"Michael Castello" owns about 1,142 other domains
Copyright Notice
Please see our "Copyright" page for further information.
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