Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do you own or ever use a copy machine? Do you have a CD burner? Or a dual tape cassette or dual video tape deck? Do you have a floppy/Zip/Jaz/etc. drive? Have you ever made a backup of your hard disk? A floppy disk? If an image can be displayed on your monitor, it can be saved. It is dead easy! Any audio or video tape can be copied, any music or computer CD or disk can be copied, anything that is recorded in ink, pixels, or bits can and will be copied. And should be copied. Lest you want to lose your only copy. The reason they have copy machines in Libraries is because the copyright laws allow people to copy anything for personal use. But selling or distributing it to others is prohibited. They also have Internet computers with attached printers in Libraries. You are fixating on an infinitesimally minute detail that is perfectly normal, accepted, and legal. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bill Gates trying to own all images. If you yourself put your images on the Internet, you also have to be responsible for their possible use. By placing them on the Internet, you have automatically put them on thousands, or millions, of hard disks. If you are paranoid, place a copyright banner across it or use one of the available watermarks. If it were illegal, all of these copiers would not be available. Frequently, when I find a great photo, I save it as my wallpaper. When I get tired of it, I find something else. The fact that it came to my computer in the first place, via the Internet, says that I can keep it on my computer, indefinitely, for my own use. If you see an image on your computer screen, it's already is on your hard disk. When you save it, you are simply saving it a place that is easier to get to than your web cache. There are probably 100 million people who know where cache and other temp storage areas are. This is NOT rocket science. If you don't want your images and/or e-mail messages to be proliferated on millions of computers around the world, don't talk. Just listen. Jim At 04:44 PM 9/18/2001 -0700, Jay Burleson wrote: >I don't know how many of you are using Internet Explorer, but since it is >very prevalent out in the world, I thought I'd better pass this along. >I just updated one of my machines to IE 6, and I found a disturbing item. >By default, when you place your mouse cursor over a photo, a toolbar pops up >in the upper left corner. It has 4 icons that do the following: >The image toolbar makes it easy for you to save, print, or send in e-mail >images that you find on the Web. The image toolbar appears when you point to >an image on a Web page. >Click the disk icon to save the image. Images are saved to your My Pictures >folder unless you specify a different location. >Click the printer icon to print the image. >Click the envelope icon to send the image in e-mail using your default >e-mail program. >Click the folder icon to open your My Pictures folder. > >On my website, I used a JavaScript to disable the right click "save picture >as" function. >The new toolbar ignores that. >I am not happy that Microsoft feels that anyone can save any image to his or >her hard drive regardless of copyright etc. >You can disable the toolbar on your machine, only to the extent that it >won't show up unless you turn it back on. So far I have not found a way to >stop it from functioning remotely, but I've just started looking. >If anyone has any more info, please post it so all can take precautions with >our posted images. > >Jay Burleson >"Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning!" J. M. Barrie >UPDATED 5-30-01: http://www.jayburleson.com/ > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html