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Re: Add an image fetcher?
said by vaxvms  :*object* It invites, even encourages, posters to take copyrighted images by making it simpler to do. Should it bother me I can do something about hotlinks to my website images. I can't do anything when someone takes an image file. You mean your "Right-Click > Save Image As" isn't working? |
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Matt
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said by Gbcue :I hope this prevents blown margins. For that reason alone, I *sign*.
It would probably help the page completely draw faster too. |
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FastEddie
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said by Weirdal : It would save a TON of time spent downloading images and uploading them here,
• The site is named Broadbandreports.com
• People use High Speed Internet (Broadband)
• Downloads take seconds, same for uploads
I **Object**
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yock
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said by Weirdal :Hotlinking should be discouraged as much as possible... I'm going to start posting that FAQ entry to every thread I see with hotlinked images.
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Phil
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Weirdal
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said by FastEddie :said by Weirdal : It would save a TON of time spent downloading images and uploading them here, • The site is named Broadbandreports.com • People use High Speed Internet (Broadband) • Downloads take seconds, same for uploads I **Object** It's the time it takes to physically right click an image, select "save as", choose a save location, click save, browse to it from the upload dialogue, click 'open', click 'upload', then delete the image from your HDD.
I'm not referring to the time it takes for you to transfer the bits. Look at Mose's timed example. He's a guy who hotlinks instead of uploading because it's five times faster. This makes uploading images you find online (something we already encourage) as easy as hotlinking (something we discourage).
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said by Weirdal :It's the time it takes to physically right click an image, select "save as", choose a save location, click save, browse to it from the upload dialogue, click 'open', click 'upload', then delete the image from your HDD. I'm not referring to the time it takes for you to transfer the bits. Look at Mose's timed example. He's a guy who hotlinks instead of uploading because it's five times faster. This makes uploading images you find online (something we already encourage) as easy as hotlinking (something we discourage). Absolutely -- it's crystal clear, and I'm amazed that smart mods are voting against it... Maybe they've never had the hassle of the temporary download/rename/upload/delete dance? It's ridiculous, and all you are proposing is a means to automatically avoid remote hot linking. It's a win for everyone involved. The only remotely possible objection would be the copyright angle (which I find dumb; as in most places, comments are purportedly the copyright of the poster, period) -- so perhaps a " via »nothotlinked.example.com " caption would satisfy that?
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Gbcue
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said by Weirdal :said by FastEddie :said by Weirdal : It would save a TON of time spent downloading images and uploading them here, • The site is named Broadbandreports.com • People use High Speed Internet (Broadband) • Downloads take seconds, same for uploads I **Object** It's the time it takes to physically right click an image, select "save as", choose a save location, click save, browse to it from the upload dialogue, click 'open', click 'upload', then delete the image from your HDD. I'm not referring to the time it takes for you to transfer the bits. Look at Mose's timed example. He's a guy who hotlinks instead of uploading because it's five times faster. This makes uploading images you find online (something we already encourage) as easy as hotlinking (something we discourage). And I might add: Remember quote:
time is money
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Re: Add an image fetcher?
*sign* -- as long as there is a preview that changes the filename
1. A preview with a different result filename (to bust caches) ensures that the image the user thinks is at a particular URL matches the image that BBR received
2. It gives the user a bailout in case the transfer fails
said by nwrickert :The effect is that dslreports will be responsible for determining the intellectual property rights, whereas with the current method you are responsible. No, BBR didn't on its own reach out and grab an image. One way or another, it's just a user-initiated functional sequence of events. In fact, the URL method is less BBR risky because if images from a particular site become a common place of complaint, then Justin can inhibit URLs from there. (Well intended critique, by nwrickert though.)
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| said by funchords :said by nwrickert :The effect is that dslreports will be responsible for determining the intellectual property rights, whereas with the current method you are responsible. No, BBR didn't on its own reach out and grab an image. One way or another, it's just a user-initiated functional sequence of events. The server, from which the image was downloaded, will have clear log records documenting that a dslr system downloaded the file. Quite possibly that server will have a clear copyright notice on its web page, asserting that the file is copyright and cannot be used in this way. So it will appear to management of that server, as if dslr violated copyright. And then, when dslr is confronted on the issued, their explanation will be "one of our users made me do it".
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that this is just asking for trouble.
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| And how is that any different than the siteshot feature?
vBulletin allows you to do it... So does imageshack and a ton of other places.
*sign* I have a freaking "temp" directory filled with stupid images I have to save as, reply, upload blah blah blah... |
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