[Leica] Re: Found on e-Bay

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

He must have done that before I went to the page - when I saw it it was just 
the link. I wonder what made him change it. Expense? Conscience? The ebay 
police?



--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Craig Zeni <clzeni@mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: Craig Zeni <clzeni@mindspring.com>
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Found on e-Bay
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 5:13 PM
> Posting a link and hotlinking (as the Ebay seller did) are
> two different things.  Clicking on a link is optional;
> hotlinking means that anybody who opened that auction
> listing is going to be using the bandwidth and images that
> belong to somebody else.  It is splitting hairs, but
> it's an important difference.  I see now that the seller
> has changed his page and there is now a link posted instead
> of hotlinking.  This is better etiquette...yes I'm a bit
> of an Internet luddite but oh well :)
> 
> CZ
> Nawth Cacalacky
> 
> On Jan 17, 2009, at 3:48 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org
> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:48:51 -0800 (PST)
> > From: "H. Ball Arche"
> <h_arche@yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Found on e-Bay
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Message-ID:
> <414249.61594.qm@web55908.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > 
> > 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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