Is this ethical?
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nuts said:
hehe... i've a feeling someone out there will be making "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters of our prata boy soon....
if he has 2-bits of intelligence, he better apologise to all those he leached on airliner.net... and fast. pretty dumb of him (for a student from a premier school) to leached other people's pics from a well-known international forum... and then post them on an equally well-known, well-visited photo sharing site... doh...
Cheesecake
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Jemepala said:
my avatar is me. shot by my friend back when we were photography students years ago!
its a gift to me, so i doubt i'm infringing any copyright la.:bsmilie:
zhang3feng
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it's flaming hot~! :flame:
gundugundu
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No this is not ethical. If he continue to do this... I'm sure he will really be selling prata to pay off the fines....
JediForce4ever
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Of all the airliner photos, only this one has the A.net watermark in the photo;
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=114410843&context=set-72057594061159909&size=o
Anyone here knows JKSC?
To me, if he knows that he has to remove the watermark, it means that he knows that he is leeching the photos, infringing copyright laws
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=114410843&context=set-72057594061159909&size=o
Anyone here knows JKSC?
To me, if he knows that he has to remove the watermark, it means that he knows that he is leeching the photos, infringing copyright laws
Cheesecake
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gundugundu said:
wa seh, ur avatar is urs right?
legit one not?
hehehe
nice design by the way! :bsmilie:
philliptan
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/purpl3_daisy/104150545/in/photostream/
Now this crappy shot confirm taken by him... is he shooting the KC-135 or the A380? You figure it out. :bsmilie:
Now this crappy shot confirm taken by him... is he shooting the KC-135 or the A380? You figure it out. :bsmilie:
Jemapela
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melnjes said:
I don't blame you for noticing it.
I know leeching is a universal problem but I don't see the need to name countries where I have observed it happening. It's also because I know it's a widespread problem that I also have fair reasons to suspect (but can't provide solid quantitative proof because I'm not doing a study/survey) that it tends to happen a lot in S'pore. (Just to let you know, I could be subconsciously comparing with western countries where I'm also participating/observing in their forums.)
It's S'poreans who created those 2 girlie websites which persistently 24/7/365 display leeched photos to their monetary gain. In case, you missed the point, they display other people's works without permission and draw huge visitorship to earn money. Where's the ethics in that? I have had a photographer-friend whose works had been leeched and displayed there but the webmaster totally ignored his request to remove images. That incident, which my friend eventually let go, due to the lack of ability in seeking legal action, slapped me in the face with the brutal reality that not every photographer has the means to sue.
Talking about sueing is cheap. (My words may sound harsh, but reality is just as harsh, and I'm only presenting it in all honesty, not because I have an itchy backside to become an unpopular figure here.)
Leeching (theft of intellectual property or copyright infringement) is shamefully rampant in Asia (including S'pore). The western world knows it, we Asians don't want to admit it. It says alot about us. The truth hurts (yea, we often don't wanna hear it).
melnjes said:
I assure you that I'm not only on S'pore-based ClubSnap, and I have also observed this trend in foreign-based forums to use avatars created by others. In my opinon, it's still leeching or abuse. It becomes crystal-clear if I were to take someone else's original image/illustration/emoticon and use it as my avatar.
Chill out everyone... I didn't ask anyone to admit whether their avatars were their own work. There's no need to admit/confess to anything. Shhh...
Hey Cheesecake, till now I still know what's inside your avatar?:dunno: care to tell me??? :embrass:Cheesecake said:
according golden rule of composition, the subject should be the Door or the policemen, tell me what you guys think .......philliptan said:
JediForce4ever
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maybe the police were coming for him?catchlights said:
wow you are prophet har?!! :bigeyes:JediForce4ever said:
JediForce4ever
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nono...:bsmilie:catchlights said:
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