All legally and probably even morally correct, but of little practical importance for the reasons discussed. As you know, if you make something available on the internet (whether free or not) it is available for people to chose what they do with it legally or otherwise and you are generally powerless .. even the 'big boys' in terms of movies etc have not succeeded in stopping what you rightly term illegal.
With regard to this forum as you say you could flag it to admin whom I'm sure would consider under the rules but I suspect we both know what the decision would probably be? In addition his decision would be final and there would be nothing you could do about it.
When Mrs Holliday retired it took us some time to try and remove 'traces' (or for them to remove themselves with time) She had advertised on a number of escort sites which had become largely inactive and impossible to contact the owners. Image searches showed hits in places she didn't even know about. Some escort sites back then (maybe now still) used to steal ads from others to boost their traffic.
Adultwork was obviously easy to take down, but the main issue at the time was with a couple of reports on a national site we are not allowed to mention, where the author had included an email contact address which she had foolishly used on occasion in real life and a google search revealed both. Took many months to get those reports deleted.
Out of curiosity I did a comprehensive search about three years ago and could find nothing left .... but that was a decade on!
As an SP nothing when you advertise is private and everything may become public very easily and beyond your control.
Admin as far as I know is pretty firm on pics being public gallery. Hence why so many have stated they have explicit permission to post other pics. He's pulled a fair bit that could out a WG as well as a punter without fair reason (threats to others).
While something hitting the web might make it free to see. It doesn't mean it's free to post elsewhere without consequence. I mean if someone found my personal IG or FB, doesn't mean they have the rights to post those pics here just because I'm a working girl.
To put it another way, there are pics of me on the web with my pre reduction boobs, posted here would cause a whole heap of trouble, as I'm under 18 in all those pics. Just because something exists on the web doesn't mean it should necessarily be shared.
To throw it the other way. I doubt a punter would want a WG sharing pics that he didn't want free to view. So a bit of treat people how you'd like to be treated I think is fair.
Pro$$ies operate below the radar and can't expect others to follow rules when they themselves ignore them, how many have their premises registered for work with the local authority, have public liability insurance, pay correct tax and national insurance, adhere to the terms of leases, not work whilst claiming benefits, offer servises they don't provide, the list goes on, but they expect others to follow strict rules surrounding pictures because they want the cash 
*Yawn* yes because all prossies are scamming the tax man makes it totally okay to screw them over /s.
I don't post pics of WGs myself but if a WG has decided to sell or give access to her PG pics to a punter or punters she shouldn't be surprised if they end up all over the net. Once out they are out for good.
IMO a WG who REALLY cared about being an anonymous as possible wouldn't show her face at all online. If I did post pics of WGs I wouldn't include PG ones personally, unless the WG had robbed me or otherwise fucked me over.
I mean, by that argument. Punters should be sharing private vids that WGs allow them to film.
Just because one person has access, doesn't mean all should.
If punters want to abuse trust, they'll ultimately lose out on services. As word will spread that punters can't be trusted.
Unless there's a damn good reason to share the pic (face pic for someone who robs/attacks a punter), it just comes off as someone violating the unspoken agreement between punter and WG. We're all running off trust. Unless someone breaks it, there's no good reason to violate it.
Hell, on all the prossie forums, we're banned from disclosing clearly identifying info (vague allowed only). Even when a punter is a proven danger (robber, attacker, rapist, etc).
Agreed, but my point still stands, they are NOT private, you are missing the point, I could access them and post them wherever I like, no matter what the website says if I wanted to, whats PRIVATE about that. Nothing.
They are asking me to Respect the privacy notice, but they are not keeping them 100% private.
Some want to make money from us flogging Pgs, but asking all the human race to respect the "privacy notice" Bollocks. If that was the case, why even have "private" gallery, just post em all in free with easily hidden features etc.
I mean, it's literally in the name. "Private" gallery. Certainly you could post them. Then us prossies would just spread the word punters can't be trusted to respect the pay wall.
Whether the pay wall is fair or not is debatable. But it's there. Unless the WG is a threat, respect it.
