Marcus Coles wrote:
> On 23/05/10 10:02 AM, Anthony Taylor wrote:
>> One of my other interests is photography, and I use a sharing site
>> called betterphoto.com. You cannot download from this ite. If you try
>> to right click on an image to copy, you get a message saying "right
>> click not permitted" so the technology exists. I am not sure how many
>> other sites have this feature.
>>
>> Tony Taylor
>> Manchester, NH
>>
>>
> With Mozilla Firefox with NoScript installed, right click on the image
> pick "view image" which opens a separate page and then save the .jpg
> image file.
>
> As others have said on the internet, "if you can see it, you can grab
> it", sometimes doing it gets a little convoluted and requires guessing
> the trickery involved.
>
> As Dale points out if all else fails you can always capture the image on
> the monitor.
>
> Even watermarks can be edited out if you take the time, so really the
> only thing guarding one's pictures are Copyright.
>
> While I don't particularly like the legislation, owners of works in the
> USA can request a takedown using the Digital Millenium Copyright
> Act(DMCA). I believe this will work with places like eBay and most
> hosting sites, they dislike the potential of legal problems. I imagine
> sample notices for doing this can be found on the internet.
>
>
> Marcus Coles
> London, Ontario, Canada.
On the other hand, isn't sharing a basic part of the CR List Philosophy?
If someone was to post pictures of say a Legnano restoration and I was about to restore a similar bicycle, I would be tempted to download those pictures to assist in my restoration.
I kind of wonder if someone who thinks that it is wrong to share pictures with other list members wouldn't be happier on the "RIAA Fanboys List" <g>
Respectfully (somewhat <g>)
Rick Burns
Streator, IL usa