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Kevin & All, I am unsure of why, but someone is taking various images from my Brickshelf account, and one of the members of our Exodus War website, and putting it into his or her own Brickshlef folder. Is there something I can do about this? (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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(...) (Directing this to lugnet.general, too) Omigosh! This is... ugg. Direct copies. I don't know about you, but I would be ANGRY! Also, pretty sloppy work. For example, Austin's Basilisk is now basilisk.jpg.jpg. I think Kevin should do (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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John & All, (...) A little angry, more confused. If soemone wants to use it on their website, fine, just don't copy the pictures and put it up somewhere else. A credit would be nice, as well. Ach, I will have to look at my home e-mail and see what (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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This is also becomming a problem over at BZCommunity.com - there are a few people over there who are stealing pics from brickshelf and re-naming them and putting them in their own folders on brickshelf. Why is this becomming such a problem all of (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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<snip> (...) code that DISABLES the right-mouse click when you open up the .htm page with the big image. I've seen this on certain proffesional photographer websites. It's a bit annoying but it works. -AHui (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) Only if they're not persistent. They can view the source for the page, get the direct URL of the image, and download it that way. ROSCO (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) Not just that... The printscreen button works wonders. Just a little bit of editing and TADA! The picture is yours. -- Mark Nelson LCC Command: (URL) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) ? What am I missing here? 1) When you click on an image in Brickshelf (below the level of a gallery) you are sent directly to the URL for the image. You can't add Javascript to a jpeg. . . 2) Javascript cannot provide any security because it's (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) with (...) the (...) Or just use lynx 8?) The point being anything you upload to a public site is publically available - you cannot stop people from downloading it. You've just gotta be vigilant. ROSCO (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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<snip> (...) Well in the WORSE-CASE option you can always place your image in powerpoint, one image per slide, use adobe acrobat to print the slides (sett acrobat at the HIGHEST IMAGE LEVEL) and then once you have the .pdf file set the security to (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) It doesn't prevent copying. It just makes it harder, which will deter some people, but not everyone. When all is said and done, if I can display the image on my computer screen, then that image must be somewhere in the memory of my computer, (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) method offers no protection. Simply bring up each page at a sufficient resolution in the Acrobat Reader, Alt-PrintScreen the image to a BMP on the clipboard, paste it into the graphics editing program of your choice and do as you wish with the (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) Okay, the original "crime" is actually re-posting someone else's images on Brickshelf without giving credit and resulting in duplicates. As stated in this thread, pictures posted to a public website are public and the user can do whatever they (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Hey .. honestly .. its the publishers fault. Bottom line. Interesting as it may be have you actually thought about it this way. Spend hours designing and building a MOC ... Spend time taking pictures of the MOC ... Spend time manipulating the (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish)
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"Ahui Herrera" <jedi_agh@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Gw6q8q.5EE@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) powerpoint, (...) at (...) protect (...) [ ... snipped ... ] One of the ways around this is to load your PDF file into Photoshop. (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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(...) This crosses into the neighbourhood of ownership. I don't think anyone holds the copyrights to their creations once posted on Brickshelf. Dosn't it state that once posted all images belong to Lego Inc? The only thing we own is the bricks and (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Joseph Williams wrote in message ... (...) holds (...) state (...) the This is so completely wrong I have to comment :-) In most countrise including the US, if you make an image, (unless it's done for an employer as part of your work), you own the (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) If people have done this and copied images to another account ON the site, why can't Admins be informed and have offender's accounts/privledges removed? -Jeff (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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<snip> (...) <snip> I do this to (download other peoples images from brickshelf onto my PC). However, in order to better keep track I raname the image to <author's name/alias on brickshelf>_<nameofitem>.xxx This way I have a name to creditthe (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) ok I read the TOS wrong. I'm one of those freaks who even bother to read software agreements as it is, usually I just scan them. My point though wasn't the legality of copyrights and my ownership of the image. It's the nature of the internet (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.publish)
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