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Subject: Changes to the Gallery - Small step for protection

tammymc opened this issue on Aug 12, 2003 ยท 173 posts


draculaz posted Tue, 12 August 2003 at 1:19 PM

Oh boy... here I go again: Image stealing? Let me get this straight. If I want to save the image on my hd because I want it to be my desktop -which I think I'm entitled to for personal use under copyright law, I can't save it anymore? What if the image is too freaking big and I want it to fit on the screen? Disabling the image toolbar takes that feature away. Plus, the workaround for this silly script-kiddie-like hack is simple. Drag the image to your desktop. You can still share it and it doesn't change squat, really. This little piece of stupidity reminds me of script kiddie sites that deny access to the source and disable right clicking just because they think it's l33t. It's just as assenine. So the whole thing is useless. It has about the same effect as a denial of service attack on an unplugged computer... and it's just as idiotic, because the issue isn't image stealing, it's telling little kiddies to stop making so much Poser pr0n from their bootleg Kazaa copy and then whine when their great achievements get downloaded and traded again. So yeah. Black ball number 2. Mihnea Dumitru