HeRe opened this issue on Jun 07, 2007 ยท 277 posts
spinner posted Sat, 14 July 2007 at 1:04 PM
ooooh! Insults! When all else fails - throw an insult and go have something better to do. Karen - You know extremely well what we're reacting to; To compare Renderosity's facilitation of celebrity lookalikes to the marketing techniques of the tobacco industry in the first half of the previous century is creative, but far fetched. I've yet to see a Lara Croft ripoff being marketed as a slimming device for overwrought and overweight hausfraus - but the lookalikes have references to their originator in their copy - and what else is ad-copy but a marketing or sales-device? And it's beside the point. The entire issue is that it's a paradox that rendo has become hysterical on image posting in threads, even if it's a promo image - promos exist with the sole purpose of being propagated, getting the face or product out there, especially when in most cases fair use applies. But hey - we're all concurring that we're entitled to our opinions, and that we're clearly in disagreement on this. That doesn't make me a bad person, or you an incompetent twat with the legal skills of a flea-infested camel. I'm off to watch some cult-film and drink some more tea myself - ta-ta for now. ~s