The law says only the copyright holder (or his/her agent) can file a complaint and have images removed. < They're a private carrier. They can (and have!) removed all kinds of material for all kinds of reasons. They don't HAVE to let anyone do ANYthing on their servers. There is no law that requires Yahoo! to sit back idly while Disney, Paramount, Anne Geddes, and many, many, many private artists have their work hacked up and passed around. They are perfectly aware of what goes on in those groups. They just haven't got the resources or the interest in monitoring them and they don't care unless a copyright holder threatens to sue them. > It's very disheartening to see someone offer up helpful ways to dissuade image grabbing and then have someone else come in and knock it right down. < Well, passing on information that the "no cache" option doesn't work with Netscape is hardly "knocking" anything down. I was just reporting what I found out so that people would know. As a matter of fact, I've had my own images ripped off by these Yahoo! groups (which is how I know about the way Yahoo! handles these matters) AND I've got a free website that provides all sorts of technical information for people who want to avoid having their images indexed (by Google, AltaVista, etc.), how to diabled the IE6 "toolbar", how to use .htaccess to prevent direct-linking, and various other helpful topics. If providing information is a crime, lock me up. shrug bonni

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