You mean people posting them somewhere else without permission?
Like what has happened to many fellow B3tans?
Don't think the father's a 'dick' so much as 'totally within his fucking rights' to be honest
(, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 14:55, Reply)
This isnt a piece of digital art he has created which has been stolen
or photographs he has taken which have been stolen from his personal collection.
They are funny pics of his kid which he chose to post in a public forum. I think he is having a laugh if he thinks you can publicly post something in a place which has free and open access to a billion people world wide and then get offended when people propagate this by copying and posting all over the place (that is generally the power of the internet and how the medium works). If he had intended to sell these pics or saw some sort of financial value in them or wanted to protect his work then all he needed to have done was watermark them like many b3tards do on here.
I agree with his point that it is poor form that people would post his 'work' and not offer a credit to him, it would seem like the decent thing to do however to me it sounds more like sour grapes that he has taken some pics that are now winding their way all over the internet and he wasn't able to somehow cash in on it or have his own personal website promoted. As I said though watermarking (although not flawless) would have drastically helped to have overcome this and is generally how any digital artist or photographer protects his or her work online. A harsh lesson for him perhaps but closing the gate after the horse has bolted seems to me to bit silly. Put it down to experience and don't make the same mistake again.
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lord turkey boy and the cleft of venus, Wed 3 Nov 2010, 2:14,
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As far as I can see...
He hasn't posted the pics on a public forum - if you click the second link, you'll see they're hosted on his own personal blog. Whether or not he wants to 'somehow cash in' on the pics (and I don't really see why he would assume that he could) is besides the point. They're pics hosted on his own personal blog, and if some arsehole lifts them without permission he is well within his rights to ask them to be removed. I agree, he could have went about this in a better way, without sounding like an arsehole himself, but that doesn't means he is in any way in the wrong here.
You seem to have a beef with him for mostly imaginary reasons - I don't see where he has tried to 'cash in' on the pics or anything like that - he's simply asking for some kind of credit or recognition, which you have admitted is fair enough. And just because he may not know about watermarking doesn't make him wrong either - he's not a digital artist, as you pointed out, he's just some guy who put pictures of his kid on his blog, so expecting him to know about shit like watermarking seems a little unfair.
The only reason I'm sticking up for him, by the way, is because your previous remarks seem totally and unnecessarily vitriolic. Give the guy a break
(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 0:15, Reply)
Oh, and if you actually read the comments on the first link, you'll see that this Dmitry guy seems like a much bigger asshole than the father
I think we've all sent e-mails while angry that probably wouldn't sound all that great when read by a third party - no need to hate the guy for it
(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 0:20, Reply)