Yeah, that's my feeling about the act of swiping somebodies pic or graphic without asking or crediting. What am I talking about? Read this and you will understand. (side note: I followed the link about the pole vaulter and have to agree, she is attractive.)
I actually shut off "hot linking" on this site for a while. I haven't checked for hot linking in a while, but at one point we had a problem with other forums and sites using our users avatars on their sites by linking back to ours instead of copying the file.
Now that I am doing more photography stuff, I hate the idea of people stealing my work without at least giving me credit.
What is your thought?
JollyRoger:
Photonapping for some uses I don't have a problem with, as long a credit is given, especially in the case of reposting on another site. But I also think that it is the owner's of the art responsibility to take proper mesures to secure his/her work. if some one wanted to take a copy of one of my photos for them selves I'm ok with that, but I wouldn't want them trying to make profit from it.
Mr_Anderson:
They've told us its okay to use other peoples images, the only thing is that you have to modify the original image up to around 75%
ZWarrior:
What about the fact that the other person worked hard to get that shot? Shouldn't they get some credit for the work?
Boomslang:
You don't want it used by someone then don't post it. Or start a secure website where people could post their pictures for a small fee.