Forum: Community Center


Subject: Changes to the Gallery - Small step for protection

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


Anthony Appleyard posted Wed, 13 August 2003 at 12:24 AM

This is getting a bit like excessive post-Sept-11th airport security where a woman can't take harmless blunt plastic knitting needles on board to pass the flight by catching up with some knitting. Copyright was made for man, not man for copyright. Lawyers were made for man, not man for lawyers. You could disable and block this and that until the system is useless, but people will still find ways to keep downloads of images, even if they must resort to the "Print Screen" button to save a copy of the screen to the clipboard. Many people are on slow dialup lines causing expensive phone bills, and often they must quickly download a copy of something and look at it offline later.