Comments | tibicina: Something I'm far more annoyed at LJ about than the flagging thing*

tibicina

Something I'm far more annoyed at LJ about than the flagging thing*

Dec 01, 2007 12:10

For those of you not reading Serrana's journal. (well, journal feed.) She wrote an entry noting a major problem with the way LJ handles image posts. (Namely, that unless you opt out, it sticks the 'latest posts' into a feed... which someone has developed a viewer for.. a viewer which gives no copyright information or even attribution. And which ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

serrana December 1 2007, 20:33:16 UTC

*GRIN* Thanks.

Yeah, when I started going through an extra 400-500 megs of bandwidth a month, I got curious....

Also, I love the icon.

tibicina December 1 2007, 20:39:31 UTC

Thanks. The icon was made by Cadhla. There's a whole series of them. I was debating that or the 'let's connect' icon. But, y'know, the point is that they really /shouldn't/ be connecting. Sooo.. yeah.

serrana December 1 2007, 20:46:41 UTC

I don't know if they don't realize this is being done (I mean, I just thought my traffic was up, until I got curious about why image files were so much higher-traffic than everything else) or they haven't thought the implications through, or what. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, so my legal opinion ain't worth diddlysquat, but this looks an awful lot like the sort of deliberate enabling of copyright violations that's gotten a lot of content providers into a world of hurt.

*shrug* It's not like I'm going to sue them, but I'd sure like them to knock it off....

kyrielle December 1 2007, 20:45:40 UTC

Yeah, that whole thing defaulting to 'opt in' is nasty. I don't worry about it too much because my host is Flickr and I have theoretically-unlimited bandwidth that way, but if you're hosting your own photos it purely stinks.

This icon seems somewhat appropriate here also...

thealien December 1 2007, 21:23:53 UTC

That image thing...wasn't that 'omg lj is raping our puppies!' for 2004 or so?

Like any good drama, do people decide to stage a revival every so often? Will there be a tour?

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be over here marrying my metaphor, since I love it so much.

serrana December 2 2007, 00:15:19 UTC

I noticed the spike in my bandwidth consumption starting in September 2007, and I've been doing this for about 18 months, so no, I don't think this is the same issue you're remembering from 2004.