On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:59:05AM +0100, Simon wrote:
A little more discussion from others would be appreciated. We can have a two-way debate, but I suggest reference to copyright law is made before ayone does anything. I don't have your previous email to hand, but hyperlinks are indeed what the internet is for, but link to the page, not to the image. Using inline images without permission in my mind is theft of intellectual property as well as bandwidth; both have value.
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.
R