Legal Question

[ezdays]

Only in the perceptions of the nay-sayers. I note how quickly one individual here accused me of doom and gloom, but this isn't my thread. I simply added the logical extension of all of the fears expressed here, without even a precipitating incident to account for it. "The guilty flee where no man persueth."

The most obvious solution, and by far the simplest, is to post a link to the image and let the reader go look for himself.

No, it took quite a bit before I came to the conclusion that you were bent on talking doom and gloom when there was no need to. The last example was:

...It's obvious from the anxious tone of this discussion that we will no longer be seeing many - if any - "public images" without a major change in policy...

It seems to me that you had come to the conclusion that we were being hamstrung at being able to post pictures anymore, I did not come to the same conclusion. That's what I got from your post and several posts before that. No, it's not your thread, but you have the right to participate and post your opinions, just like everyone else. My opinion is that you've been taking the side of things coming to a halt since by definition, too many people are wrong and shouldn't be posting what they do. To me that's gloom and doom, or "the sky is falling" syndrome. Your "obvious" solution is OK, but it may not be necessary in most cases. Things have been fine here for over three years and so we're not going to be doing anything different. If we get raided by the secret police, the FBI or the CIA, like they have with some of those large file-sharing sites, we'll let them tell us what we're doing wrong when they do and we'll change accordingly. Since we are not making a profit like those sites are by hosting file-sharing, I really doubt that it will happen. For now, we follow the rule, "thou shall not steal", if anyone thinks they're in the wrong by posting something here or anywhere else, they should take the route that eases their conscious. Post a link if that's the right thing to do, but we're not going to police every photo here to be sure, and I don't think anyone expects us to.

If anyone thinks I'm picking on them for their opinions or statements, I'm not. I am just trying to say that if we aren't upset, no one else should be either. Just remember, Mikey and I make the rules and policy here, and for now, as I said before, nothing changes....