What?

[poliphilo]

One of my friends- a person I thought extremely sympathique- has been caught stealing other people's photographs and posting them as their own. Within the past couple of hours their journal has been deleted.

Many of the filched pictures came from this site http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/France/photo100850.htm

I am shocked and disappointed.

Why would anyone do such a thing?

Comments

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a shame. Yeah, I think all of us LJers are to a greater or lesser extent asking for love.

The person in question appeared so sweet-natured, so caring that (on reflection) the miappropriation of a few photographs seems neither here nor there.

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Unless they are your photographs. She's opened herself up to lawsuits up the wazoo.

I know, typical American thinking.

But sometimes intellectual property is all you have.

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm just a wishy-washy liberal.

If it was my stuff that had been stolen I would send a stern letter, but I wouldn't prosecute. Not in this instance. If she had been trying to make money out of the pictures it would have been different.

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's just us LJers. I think all of us, when you get right down to it, want to be loved. We want to know there are people out there who care about what happens to us, who hold us in high esteem, who respect us.

I don't know what it says about humanity today that we all seem to be desperate for love. Something is missing, somewhere, methinks...

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The old communities- in which everybody had their alotted place- are breaking up, and we're having to build new ones. That's my guess anyway.

I like it that the communities that develop through the net are largely without constraints of nationality, gender, age etc. We seek out like-minded people who- under the old order- we'd never ever have had the chance to meet.

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I've been on the Internet since 1980, which is nearly half my life. The Internet is firmly integrated into my social life; I don't remember a lot about how it was before then.

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I didn't wake up to the possibilities until the late 90s and still have some of the zeal (and innocence) of the recent convert.

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

What will happend when you become disillusioned and move on?!:)

She said, tying two unrelated threads together...

Re: Wanting to be Liked

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good question.

Writing is what I do. That hasn't changed since I was in my teens. And right now LJ seems like the place to be doing it.

I feel like I'm taking part in a fascinating experiment. I mean the blog is a new form. We're the first generation to be working with it. I can't see myself getting bored with it any time soon.