Yes.  Same name.

It really isn't a new image.  It is the old image with an edit or two.

Just edit and reupload.

I edit my images frequently without seeing problems.    Just edit the image.  Don't change the size or the file name or the file type.  Sometimes they might disappear for a day or a few but are back in the rankings.

...this will only hurt the competitor and not my client...   Is this true?

No

Is there any risk to my client?

Yes

Should we take action?

Maybe

If copied content is placed on a stronger site or simply a site that Google likes better it can...

1. outrank the original site

2. pull traffic away from the original site for primary and long tail keywords

3. acquire links, likes and tweets that should belong to original site

4. cause Panda problems for the original site

So, if the competitor who took the content is strong then your client could have a huge problem.  If the competitor is weak then you probably don't have a problem now but could have one at a future time.

Go out looking at the SERPs for short and long tail keywords to see if this site is competitive.

If you become a huge success on bozzie311.pro you can expect a very large percentage of your hopeful visitors to type in bozzie311.com.

If you are serious about your venture and going to charge out with intentions of winning then my recommendation is to find a great .com.  Lots of domains are not being used right now or being underused.  Paying $1000 or $10,000 or even more for a great address is worth every penny IMO.

Although there might be 100,000 of these domains registered, most people will say "huh???" when you tell them your web address by phone.  Most will forget and type in .com.

I have not gotten to the ranking question and this is a 'no go' for me.  However, I think that a .pro will be just as easy or difficult to rank as any other type of domain.

The upside might be fewer robots trying to scrape your content and spam your blog.

thanks for this report

How about other people hotlinking images from your domain.  Do you think that google sees them pulling content from you via the image link and gives you a small credit for that?

I don't know the answer.  I assume that the value is low to nothing.  Do you have any ideas on this?

It loos like nothing bad will happen, but that you lose a lot of SEO benefits from having images stored locally and getting the proper attribution.

I agree.  I don't know how much SEO benefits come from hot-linked images.  But, in case there is any benefit we have all of our images on our own domain and that requires terrabytes of BW per month.

Right.   That's why I have all of my images on the same server as the domain.

hmmm....  To me, this sounds like moving your whole office because your trash can is full.

More and more people are placing their images and other large files on cloud servers because they sometimes offer a cost advantage and they sometimes allow a website to load faster.

Because of this I don't think that Google is going to give a site a huge penalty if they are pulling content from a second domain.   This is being done by some of the highest quality and most popular sites on the web.

However, I think like you and have all of my images on my own domain.  Then if people are hotlinking them they will be coming from my site and I will get any credit for that - if google smiles about it, which I am not sure that they do.