http://www.internettime.com/2010/01/purloined-photo/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:55:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.internettime.com/2010/01/purloined-photo/comment-page-1/#comment-2887 Rex Davenport Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:23:31 +0000 http://www.internettime.com/?p=3506#comment-2887 Jay: It would be nice if every piece of intellectual property could be protected, but the wild west nature of the Web makes it possible to just pick up things with ease. I have worked with a couple of younger editors and designers who feel -- in all honesty -- that if an image or text appears on a website it is free to be used by anyone. If wish that wasn't the case. It's a losing battle and the music industry has proved technology, like DRM, doesn't do anything but piss off consumers. The New York Times technology writer, David Pogue, writes about this issue pretty often. You might find solace in his pieces. You won't however, find a silver bullet. Jay: It would be nice if every piece of intellectual property could be protected, but the wild west nature of the Web makes it possible to just pick up things with ease. I have worked with a couple of younger editors and designers who feel — in all honesty — that if an image or text appears on a website it is free to be used by anyone. If wish that wasn’t the case. It’s a losing battle and the music industry has proved technology, like DRM, doesn’t do anything but piss off consumers. The New York Times technology writer, David Pogue, writes about this issue pretty often. You might find solace in his pieces. You won’t however, find a silver bullet.

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