
| Fuzzy_Logic #471076 10 months ago |
I mean it's bad enough that people upload stuff from that site anyway (remember when aggregate sites that stole content and added a watermark were a BAD thing? Anyone?) but good lord, to reupload stuff that was stolen FROM PONIBOORU not even a full day after it was posted here is just so ridiculous you guys
D:< |
| NightJack #471111 10 months ago |
^ I know man, I know. |
| Carcer #471119 10 months ago |
I don't know about the rest of these idiots but I die a little inside every time I see that watermark on an image on ponibooru. The sites that do shit like that do NOT DESERVE YOUR TRAFFIC. STOP SUPPORTING THEIR UNETHICAL, UNSCRUPULOUS WAYS, YOU PLEBS |
| Anonymous #471123 10 months ago |
Seems a bit silly, I guess, to upload what's essentially the same picture with a watermark.
But Ponibooru is a site made for free image sharing, so we shouldn't act all surprised when the images in question are taken and shared across a multitude of other sites. Accusing anyone of "stealing" is probably pretty silly too, and bound to lead to other problems. |
| Fuzzy_Logic #471138 10 months ago |
if the content is original, it is, indeed, stealing to TAKE IT FROM WHERE IT WAS POSTED, apply a watermark, and benefit financially from traffic.
taking stuff from deviantart and putting it here involves no watermarks and no profit, but places like this are branding the content as their own, applying advertising for themselves to the pictures, and rely on traffic and ads for profit. Does nobody remember ebaumsworld? How can the internet have forgotten that shithole already? the "Cheezeburger" network is THE EXACT SAME THING. |
| Lockstep #471160 10 months ago |
It would be understandable if that site had ANY content originating there, but it doesn't. Nobody should ever assume that something they see there isn't already everywhere else, including on Ponibooru.
We get enough dupes here already without this junk. |
| Carcer #471194 10 months ago |
The important distinction between ponibooru and the Cheezburger network stuff is accreditation. I go looking through images on the bronies memebase thing and (though my search is admittedly inexhaustive) there's nothing on those pages that indicates where a single goddamn one of their images came from, or who originally created it. Ponibooru has artist: tagging and a source field which people are encouraged to, and do, use. We're generally good about making sure the people who are actually responsible for producing the images are getting credit, assuming they didn't do so anonymously. Ponibooru also doesn't watermark images. Thanks to this memebase shit the artwork of many hardworking people will be floating out there with no way of it being linked back to them, no credit given, just the watermark for some site which makes money off their work without giving them a single consideration.
People could get more up-in-arms about eBaumsworld because the people running that did most of the content-stealing themselves. Memebase uses the magic of Web 2.0 to make their userbase do their content-stealing for them, and it's harder to get annoyed when the people who are directly doing the bad thing are merely ignorant and enthusiastic users instead of the wilful bastards in charge. |
| Anonymous #471292 10 months ago |
Just use freaking tinypic people. |
| Van_Horsing #471565 10 months ago |
Guys.
Do you know how the cheezburger network works? I don't think you do. They don't have their staff go around, find popular images, then upload them to their own site, laughing evilly all the while. Users upload images themselves. The site is simply a hub where people can go and see the images. They don't claim to have created the stuff. Besides, almost the ENTIRE SITE consists of macros, many of which ARE made there, and those barely deserve accreditation, which is why nothing on the site gets it. Actual art is very rare there. It's not as big of a deal as you're making it out to be. And if you're bitching about the "watemark"... Don't. It takes 30 seconds to shave off in MS Paint. Spend your time complaining about semitransparent, in-picture watermarks, which actually deserve it. |
| Van_Horsing #471588 10 months ago |
Also, I'm sure most of the "watermarked" macros you're seeing actually were created on the site's macro-maker, which is a useful tool for people who don't know about roflbot. |
| Fuzzy_Logic #473466 10 months ago |
It doesnt MATTER if it's all user-uploaded. It's site-endorsed. "oh they dont have any control over it a bloo bloo" bullshit, they have complete control over it and choose not to exact that control. It's the same as if they went around and put stuff there themselves. |
| Anonymous #473651 10 months ago |
^^^ If they're not taking credit for anything on the site there's no reason to have the watermark in the first place except to give themselves free advertising. Watermarking is hated mainly on principle; the fact that they just happen to watermark things in an easily removable way hardly matters.
And don't talk about what people spend their time complaining about when you spend your time defending websites of zero merit. |
| Anonymous #475633 10 months ago |
If ponibooru used watermarks -
exactly the same Besides aren't these complaints regarding illegally obtained images of a copyrighted tv program anyway? So I don't see how you have any right to judge. |
| Van_Horsing #491361 10 months ago |
^You can't say it's the same at all, dude! Ponibooru ARTIST TAGS its images!
...Which is the community's responsibility... Just like cheezburger... OH LOOK. Turns out it IS the same damn thing. |