Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/17

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Subject: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat Jan 17 11:12:24 2009
References: <414249.61594.qm@web55908.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <2E64099E-3FBD-4F67-B40D-A5003B6DAFC8@telefonica.net>

On Jan 17, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:

> Hi Ball,
>
> I'm absolutely agree with your words, finally is a problem of be  
> polite, and if somebody of us we don't want that our images are look  
> by non authorised people we should put a password, we all know that  
> internet is an open window..., but I repeat, beeing polite.

agreed politeness is to be desired and expected...when it comes to the  
internet and e-bay we can be appreciative when we see it, not to decu/ 
disappointed when we don't...

sadly it's a commodity that is more valuable, but less common these  
days...

Steve



> Saludos cordiales
> Lluis
>
>
> El 17/01/2009, a las 19:48, H. Ball Arche escribi?:
>
>> Just for the sake of chewing on this bolus a little bit more, I  
>> wonder if it occurred to Lluis to ask permission from ebay when he  
>> posted a link to their site in his letter here, or to ask the  
>> seller whose listing it is? If he is like me, I'm sure he did it  
>> without giving it a second thought, as have many of us here.
>>
>> Without descending into hair-splitting legalistic weasel words  
>> please, does anyone care to defend the position that what is OK for  
>> Luis to do is wrong for somebody else? (Nothing personal Lluis -  
>> like I said, I've done it too).
>>
>> On re-reading the listing, I think the seller was wrong not to make  
>> it more clear that Lluis's photo's were not taken with the lens on  
>> auction. And yes, it would have been polite to at least give Lluis  
>> credit.
>>
>> Beyond that, I agree with what Doug was getting at, which is that  
>> if you want to keep a proprietary relationship to the stuff you put  
>> up on the web, its up to you to exert ownership through water- 
>> marking, encryption, password protection, or whatever. Facts of  
>> life, folks.
>>
>> Otherwise you're making information freely available and you can't  
>> let your feelings get hurt when somebody else makes free use of it  
>> - you should expect it.
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Lluis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net>
>>> Subject: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 3:25 PM
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've saw this on e-bay, a Cooke Amotal like mine:
>>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.es/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310115966255
>>>
>>> On the advertising it is a link showing the pictures with
>>> this lens, I saw it... and this is my Gallery with this
>>> lens!, please look at "Please visit this link..."
>>>
>>> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=848443
>>>
>>> What do you think? it is correct ?
>>>
>>> Of course internet is a open window to the world...., but I
>>> didn't expect this...
>>>
>>> Saludos cordiales
>>> Lluis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Replies: Reply from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] WAS: Found on e-Bay NOW: POLITNESS!!!???)
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Message from luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll) ([Leica] Found on e-Bay)