Re: Free Sites & Pirates

["Bill D. Casselberry" <bcasselb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Luvdove6 wrote, on free webspace providers, etc ...:
 
> If you sign up but ONLY post your URL and no images, can you still risk
> having your images sold or copied?  If so, I'm taking them OFF  ;-)

	Truth is -- if one has images on the web, someone may easily
	download the file. That's Life. Now - if you put up a file w/
	enough detail & resolution to produce a decent print from some
	pirate w/ an inkjet printer to sell as his/her own in their own
	little burg -you're foolis & it's just tough tomatoes. An image
	can look just fine on a monitor, but produce a lousy & small inkjet.
	This is (IMHO) the only protection, in reality. Besides, in a decent
	sized usage sale, the client always needs the original (or a high
	quality copy) to work from. No one is gonna rake in big bucks from a 
	downloaded 70k jpeg at 72-100dpi. There is no way to prevent an 
	unscrupulous person from using the file you have up for display, so
	don't put up something that will produce decent hard-copy.

							   Bill 


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