14 Oct
2004
14 Oct
'04
7:38 p.m.
On Tue 12 Oct 2004, Roger Burton West roger@firedrake.org wrote:
If you put an image up for straight http, you are _intrinsically_ giving anyone permission to use it. You can assert copyright, and you can make some lawyers slightly richer thereby, but really it's all bullshit. If you didn't want it used, you shouldn't have made it freely available. If your images are so precious to you, require cookies or basic auth or referrer checks; don't put them up where the entire world can see them and then complain that the entire world can see them.
Just for the record, I don't agree with any of this but I don't think I can change Roger's mind by arguing with him, so I won't.
Kake