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Re: Roy Schestowitz - Pirate

  • Subject: Re: Roy Schestowitz - Pirate
  • From: William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:55:19 +0100
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On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:56:27 -0500, Linonut wrote:

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Erik Funkenbusch belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
> 
>> So, it appears that Roy is using images on his blog that he has
>> wholesale copied from the authors without permission.
>>
>> I noticed this on this article:
>>
>> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/03/03/scoble-given-up/
>>
>> Interesting that he credits the image author (for that one), but he
>> neglected to actually get the authors permission to copy it.  I was
>> supsicious that this might be the case and emailed the author to find
>> out. He confirmed that it was copyright infringement.
>>
>> If he had merely linked to the image, it would have been more
>> acceptable, since he wouldn't have actually copied the image.  However,
>> that would beg the bandwidth stealing argument of linking to images on
>> other peoples sites.
>>
>> In any event, I have to wonder how many other images on his site have
>> been similarly misappropriated.  Many of them have no credits at all.
>>
>> Bummer for you Roy.
> 
> You're a sneaky little shit, Erik.  A rotten little turd.

Yes, but we knew that before, hence the "Ewik The Weasel" label.

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