look familiar? rant

[vwscir87@hotmail.com (the hitman)]

what i mind is people who take pictures off of these sites and try to pass 
them off as there own cars! a couple of weeks ago i was warning everyone not 
to call or look at a car for sale in the scirocco.org classifieds for this 
very reason.
  HIT


>From: T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: look familiar? rant
>Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:36:06 -0800
>
>Brian Haygood wrote:
> >
> > I don't get it guys.  Our pictures aren't copyrighted, and nobody is 
>trying
> > to make a profit off of them while excluding us.  We have no profits or
> > interests to protect except that of generating interest in our cars, 
>right?
> > Why the heck do people get so pissed when someone takes pictures from 
>our
> > site?  They are just enthusiasts like us.  Hell, the pictures from 
>Duan's
> > house of all the cars lined up in a VW emblem should be a cultural icon, 
>not
> > something we try to take credit for and horde for ourselves.
>
>
>I believe the pics on the Org site should have a watermark placed on
>them, a little line (very, very tiny) at the bottom giving thx for
>source and others are supposed to credit sources.
>
>
>I don't think ANYone should pull pix off of another web site and then
>post them on their own site- without permission and Definitely not
>without giving credit.
>
>This issue was settled long before the Internet became the Web.
>
>TBerk
>
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