"lonestranger" (lonestranger)
08/28/2014 at 13:46 • Filed to: rant
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"lonestranger" (lonestranger)
08/28/2014 at 13:46 • Filed to: rant | 1
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LOLWUT
Umm, yeah, there's more to the context menu than just saving and printing.
I wasn't even attempting to "Save image as", I wanted to "Search Google for this image" in order to find a better quality version than what is on your !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
You're going to sic lawyers after people who are using a third party's product as it was intended? Good luck with that.
EDIT: I just realized that many of the images on the page linked above are, by his own admission, scanned from books. He has no rights to them. He cites the book and the photographer, but that's no different than if I were to republish them here myself and cite said book & photog. Others are obviously from magazines yet are not attributed to anyone. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! even has "© COPYRIGHT 1987 BIGFOOT 4X4 INC" and "Photo by Four Wheel and Off Road" clearly* printed right on it.
* You may note that his own watermark, added to all the images, is mostly illegible.
macanamera
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 13:49 |
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Not really even sure whats going on here.
HiMyNameIsJayAgain
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 13:50 |
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LOL.
I'm just going to repeatedly right click all of the pictures.
I'd like to see them try to bring any "criminal action against [me] (I'm assuming they mean "legal action" unless they're suggesting that they're going to do something criminal to me).
Nibbles
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 13:52 |
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RIGHT CLICK ALL THE PICS
Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 13:54 |
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You sound scared. The guy that owned this website probably also designed the Youabian Puma
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lonestranger
> macanamera
08/28/2014 at 14:00 |
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I was GIS'ing "Bigfoot 5", clicked on the second result , clicked visit page, and saw that it was a crappy scan of a folded photo . I wanted to search Goggle by image in order to find a better copy, and was greeted with the threatening pop-up.
I don't care that the website's owner is attempting to disable people from saving his photos. He has the right to protect his intellectual property, even if he does so with annoying pop-ups. If I were post any of his images here or elsewhere, he'd have a case. I'm pissed that he's either
A: Ignorant to the law and/or how the internet and browsers function
or
B: Attempting to intimidate his site's visitors
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lonestranger
> Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
08/28/2014 at 14:02 |
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Not scared, just annoyed at his ignorance. I repeatedly right-clicked out of spite.
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lonestranger
> HiMyNameIsJayAgain
08/28/2014 at 14:03 |
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LOL, either way, I'd love to see how it'd play out for him.
Tekamul
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 14:29 |
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LOL
I wonder if he knows about copy and paste.......
Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Now I have all your stuff :)
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Tekamul
> HiMyNameIsJayAgain
08/28/2014 at 14:30 |
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It's not even about the pictures. He has it set as a blanket mouse right click function on the page. Even if you right click in the middle of no where, you will get the same message.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 14:39 |
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If he has a counter on the number of right clicks on his web page, he's probably hitting around 1000+ in the last 5 minutes lol.
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lonestranger
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
08/28/2014 at 14:44 |
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I hope so.
Dusty Ventures
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 14:49 |
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I decided to join in the spite-clicking (because I have nothing better to do today). After about the fifth time the box popped up with a little check box added saying "prevent this page from creating further dialogs." I clicked it, because why not. Suddenly I have the ability to right click images and get the drop-down. Awesome.
user314
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 15:02 |
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IANAL, but if you were posting the pics he's taken over here, it's covered under Fair Use (someone please correct me if I'm wrong though), though it'd be common courtesy to link back to his site, or at least credit him.
Now, the scans of other people's works he has posted? He doesn't have a leg to stand on there.
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user314
> Dusty Ventures
08/28/2014 at 15:03 |
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I have NoScript on FireFox, no pop-up here either.
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lonestranger
> Dusty Ventures
08/28/2014 at 15:14 |
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Ha! I never even thought of that. Safari? On Chrome, checking the box has deactivated everything. No pop-ups, nor any context menu.
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Dusty Ventures
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 15:18 |
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Firefox 31.0 on Mac OS 10.9.4
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lonestranger
> user314
08/28/2014 at 15:24 |
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I remember a couple of years ago here on Oppo, someone innocently created a post with some photos of an interesting car. The images were watermarked with the photographer's name and website, the Oppo poster correctly attributed said photographer and linked to said website.
The photographer/website owner was furious that someone "stole" his pics. He posted as much in the Oppo thread, and ended up digging himself a deeper hole. IIRC, Gawker Media's legal team got involved. It was a mess.
My apologies, but I forget which Opponaut it was.
npg
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 17:42 |
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Here let me help you out.
http://monsterphoto.iwarp.com/imagesft/?thum…
There is his index.
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 17:45 |
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I'm sure NoScript block such things, as this is a sort of script he's running on the site I believe.
M54B30
> lonestranger
08/28/2014 at 20:30 |
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I saved it on my ipad just fine. Send the lawyers, I'll wait. Report me to the Interwebz police
Chase
> Dusty Ventures
08/28/2014 at 22:18 |
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(in chrome) gave me the option 2nd right click :P
