Re: The Official FAQ of alt.ascii-art

On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 13:17:58 GMT, Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote
thusly:

>Spunkystein's laments along the lines of "that's the only reward the ascii
>artist gets" is not effective, people continue committing copyright
>infringements on her pics, even Colinstein does it.

>More effective is to make clear to perpetrators that they are committing acts
>of piracy, vandalism and theft of intellectual property. If a simple reminder
>does not work, then inflict acts of piracy, vandalism and theft upon the
>perpetrator's own pics.
>
>In other words, I am not going to spend time on second reminders. I encourage
>everyone to do the same.


Now what was that phrase about two wrongs...


Have you any idea how childish you sound?

The fact is that the people who are most likely to remove signitures from a
picture aren't artists. So they have no pictures upon which "copyright
infringements" can be committed.

If you really feel that strongly about copyright infringments upon your
pictures  then the proper course of action would be to take legal action
against the person who stole/vandalised/pirated your intellectual property,
not to indulge in squabbles that would be more fitting in a playground.

Perhaps it's time for me to get a killfile.
__________

Aziraphael

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