Three strikes!!!

[Crazy Gringo]

Last night my image hosting service webshots did their third copyright infringement thingie which I wasn't alerted about until this morning.

 

So I removed ALL my images from their website in utter protest over their automated violation system.

 

That system deletes the entire album in question (better safe then sorry I guess) instead of only booting the image in question into oblivion.

 

This time the victim was my Earth 2.0 album which contained 87 screenshots from my current session of UFO Aftershock. :mad:

 

So therefore ALL of my posts containing imagelinks or postings are dead at the moment.

I will try to put as much stuff I can onto the Coopermine imagehosting service without upsetting Kernel too much and relink the posts with the images there.

 

In the end to Webshots.com all I can say is: So long and thanks for all of the smelly fish.

[Slaughter]

Sorry to hear that! Given how hopeless they have behaved however, I support your decision.

[Kernel]

I will try to put as much stuff I can onto the Coopermine imagehosting service without upsetting Kernel too much and relink the posts with the images there.

 

That's what the the image hosting is there for, go ahead and upload what you want. As long as the images arn't infinging anyone elses copyright then you won't see me getting upset.

[Crazy Gringo]

Thanks Kernel. :grin:

 

I just don't see how this copyright deal works when you are posting screenshots from actual gameplay and NOT hawking the 'official' screenshots from the games developer/publishers website and posting them as

my own.

Is there some paragraph in the that elusive document called End User License Agreement (EULA for short) that there is bound together with duct tape to the program/game that states that you mustn't take screenshots of the game?

I know about the you-may-in-absolutely-no-way-make-any-copies-by-any-means-possible.

Does that include screenshots from actual gameplay might I ask?

 

As I work in the construction industry where we use a CAD program to produce all of the drawings needed to build a construction of any kind.

If you are a pencilpusher like the reporters of copyright infringement then they should sue any company with a CAD program due to the fact that a drawing file is the same as a screenshot is in a game.

You 'made' the drawing/screenshot.

Therefore it is unique in nature until you share it with someone else like posting it on the web in case of the screenshot.

If a screenshot is a copyright infringement then it is in everyone right to complain to the image hosting service or you directly about it.

But when someone who of personal reasons don't like the picture and cries out: 'Copyright infringement' with no valid reason then the right is abused.

In all of my cases of the picture in question along with all of the other pictures in same photoalbum was deleted by the image hosting service as an automated response in order to protect me from any form of damage. But I had already suffered damage when pictures were deleted.

Automation might be good for a lot things but to make it a standard practice to delete a persons intellectual property when it might be rotten is judging the accused before even the evidence is presented.

Withholding the intellectual property from the public eye until the claim has been proven or dismissed would be a much more preferable code of conduct.

This way all the work that went into making the intellectual property known to the public hasn't been lost which it has been in all of my cases.