Picture Pirate! YYaaaaaaarrrrrrr!!!
Well... some of my images that I sent up to Flickr violated the TOS there and I got a nasty gram from the folks there because some of my images violated another person's copyright. Acckkkk!! Never my intention! Thus I quickly scrambled in a mad panic to remove everything from my flickr account!! Then... I did some thinking. All the images that I got I have gathered from the web, for free. Most, if not all, of the images that I collect have been taken from newsgroups, of which someone else has taken from another site and then uploaded to the newsgroup. And many, if not most, are 5 years old, or older! Many are 10 years old! It's not as if the original photographer and the like have not had time to profit from these images. Anyway, I have not altered any of the images. I do not do like many and crop out the copyright and/or the artists 'signatures'. Indeed, I very very rarely rename the images (beyond the adding numerical date at times to those that are just called ...