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Originally Posted by TomJoe
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Originally Posted by squian
It costs the admins money to run this web site. Are you stealing everytime you visit?
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No, because I am patronizing them directly. However, if I start using the FF logo over on my own website, or use their gallery as an image host for my own website, which forces the admins here to pay for my own personal use of their own logo and bandwidth, I'm stealing. |
TomJoe, you are just re-asserting your argument, not explaining it. I really don't understand how it's stealing.
The admins pay the cost. The admins decide to post pictures in a public place. Why should the FF admins expect that you will not use it for your own "personal use"? Why do the admins have any reasonable expectation about how you will use the publically available data? Especially when that expectation is not stated explicitly. On the contrary, I think if you don't want people to link to your site or include content from it, you should have to say so. Even then, given the technology of the Internet, it hardly seems like a reasonable expectation.