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Originally Posted by warrenly
It isn't stealing anything.
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You pay for bandwidth for a site to allow people to look at the stuff on your site and if they look at it it's stealing. I don't think so. Show me a case that was successfully prosecuted.
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Posting a picture is no different than telling a bunch of your friends about a picture you found on the internet and them going to the site and looking at a picture.
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Then why not do that.
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I could, and have. What's the difference? It's still "Looky, looky." I admit, out of respect for the message board I'm posting in, a link would be better, consume less of it's bandwidth. But then, that's why some boards have policies about hotlinking, not because it's stealing but because it uses up their bandwidth.
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Or better yet, download the picture to your desktop, then upload it to FF? Instead of using IMG tags and inserting the URL of a picture on another site, taxing their server instead of FF's?
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Because then I'm representing it as my own and THAT is stealing. Linking to a picture on someone's website is NOT stealing.
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Posting a picture isn't stealing any more than posting a link, which nobody has declared to be stealing.
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Linking to a site, and directly using their bandwidth are two entirely different things. The first forces the other server to accept FF's use of their bandwidth, the other leaves it up to the individual to decide if they want to go there or not.
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Hotlinks in unopened pages do not do a damn thing. They are not two different things.
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It's only theft if you try to pass it off as your own.
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I disagree. If your laziness costs other people money, you're doing them a disservice.
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Oh, now, it's just a disservice. On that I agree. But, I don't agree that it is theft. If you put one of your paintings in your gallery window, you must want people to look at it. You would probably complain if the fleet of double-decker buses I hire to take people by to look at them because it might make access to your gallery more difficult because of the continuous stream of traffic, but I'm not doing anything illegal. Perhaps you shouldn't post it where people can see it without coming into your business.
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If you don't want your pictures to be viewed on the internet for free, there are two things you can do: 1. Don't post pictures on the internet. 2. Get some damn software protection to limit access to approved users.
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I think it's reasonable to expect people to, if they want to view my information including pictures, to access my own site to view it.
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There are a myriad of programs that can limit access to those that you chose to limit it to. Who is lazy now?