Watermarking stuff you didn't make

[flyingchicken]

So we have sites like 9gag or CollegeHumor's funny internet pictures sections that put big ugly stamps on stuff they didn't make. I'm don't know no law nor philosophy, so I can't comment on legality or ethicality, and I'm ignorant on the matter, so all I can say is that I find that obnoxious, almost as obnoxious as me.

What do you think?

 

[holy king]

nothing.

 

[mayor]

Why do you find it obnoxious?

(and why do you find it less obnoxious as you )

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I HATE 9GAG. They take credit for everything on the internet and make it all pop culture stuff. Every internet thing is first made on 4 chan and than it gets proccesed on reddit and memebase and finally 9gag takes it and makes it pop culture and popular. I think anonymous or some hacker group should destroy 9gag.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I HATE 9GAG. They take credit for everything on the internet and make it all pop culture stuff. Every internet thing is first made on 4 chan and than it gets proccesed on reddit and memebase and finally 9gag takes it and makes it pop culture and popular. I think anonymous or some hacker group should destroy 9gag.

Protip: It's ruined by pop culture before it's even left 4 chan.

 

[Cutlass]

I used to make some screen captures and scan some magazine pics. I never put any marks on it. Fact is I never really owned any of it, and so was not really entitled to do so. And the same goes for anyone else making caps, clips, and scans.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

ebaumsworld started it.

 

[cardgame]

I, too, hate 9GAG for making the claim that they made their content.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I used to make some screen captures and scan some magazine pics. I never put any marks on it. Fact is I never really owned any of it, and so was not really entitled to do so. And the same goes for anyone else making caps, clips, and scans.

True. I dont put watermarks on any of the scans on my site (even if I scanned 'em) 'cos that would be unfair to the real owner.

 

[Zelig]

What the hell in 9gag?

Hint: It's a rhetorical question.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

I guess Fight Club was right: Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy.

 

[Mise]

Yeah, I hate that. It's obnoxious indeed.

 

[Tenochtitlan]

I do my part by boycotting their website, and any website that puts up obnoxious watermarks

 

[warpus]

I've heard of 9gag but thought it was a not-so-popular site for teens or something.

Copyright infringement is bad, mmkay?

 

[Bugfatty300]

It's not really about claiming ownership. It's about advertising.

Guy using internet sees a really funny picture hotlinked from someone's imageshack with funnystuff.com plastered across the bottom. Thus they go to funnystuff.com to see more funny pictures. Works with porn too.

 

[azzaman333]

It's bad manners.

 

[Takhisis]

Protip: It's ruined by pop culture before it's even left 4 chan.

Post fixed.

Yeah, I hate that. It's obnoxious indeed.

Yes indeed. Someone should make a dewatermarker piece of software.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I do not have the slightest clue what this thread is about

 

[Virote_Considon]

^ Notice the CivFanatics watermark, bottom-right

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Nice one . I now know what a watermark mark is . Unfortunately , on re reading with my new found knowledge I still don't understand what 90% of the posts on this thread are about . I also suspect that I'm gonna survive ignorantly happy on this matter .

So there is a website that collates funny stuff from the web and puts it on it's site....it then adds the watermarks sort of making it look likes it is it's own stuff , but maybe more to the point , as these images then get further thrown around the web , the watermark remains and the site gets advertising for stuff it didn't create ?

Yeah , stuff 'em