Large Scale Central

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#1

So, I received this email in my box (names removed):

A railfan, xxxxxxx, stole my picture and posted on NERAIL. When I contacted xxxxxxxxx he made all kinds of promises and kept none. I don’t know why railfan has not helped me resolve this.

To which I wrote back:

Um, what? I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Which elicited an angry response:

This is about a RAILFAN that steals pictures.
What is it you do not understand?

Being responded to like that, I flooded forward tubes:

I understand that youre yelling at me, and I have nothing to do with either Billy Leazer or Jeff Morris. Why the hell are you yelling at me? Go vent somewhere that can help you. I run Large Scale Central, period. Go away.

And that got a great “oh yea” :

You could not run anything worthwhile. LOSER.

To which I replied:

And what exactly do you think I can do about someone stealing your pictures?

I can’t wait for the next installment. Mensa candidate, this one.

#2

Sounds like someone forgot take their meds.

#3

Apparently every train related website on the planet is connected through some great cosmic network, and I, somehow, am in charge of this. I wish I knew that before I bought my last batch of business cards.

#4

Bob, I didn’t mean you forgot.

#5

How can we steal some more of his pictures to post on NERAIL? :wink:

#6

When are people going to realize nothing is sacred on the internet (including the computers of Senators apparently)? Unless somebody is making money on something you created (and taking a picture of somebody else’s creation barely fits in that category), why would you care? Someone recently posted a bastardized version of the Utah state quarter that I created in photoshop. I was flattered it was being spread around.

-Brian

#7
Bob McCown said:
Apparently every train related website on the planet is connected through some great cosmic network, and I, somehow, am in charge of this. I wish I knew that before I bought my last batch of business cards.
Bob, ;) :D ;)

Really?!? Now that we know that, could you start pulling some strings? :wink: :slight_smile:

#8

Unless you yourself provide firewall protections that allow viewers to ‘view’ but not copy, anything you post online is fair game, thats the way it is.

#9

Fair game - I don’t agree. But you shouldn’t post anything that you aren’t willing to have stolen. Copyrights are real and apply on the net. Catching and successfully suing violators is nearly impossible. YouTube has proven that all you need to do is apologize and remove the violating post and all is forgiven by the courts.

#10

There was one former poster here at LSC who used to pass off others pix without any credits.

He even used to crop the pix to remove any copyright signage embedded in the image.

I class that as theft too.

#11

Wasn’t me! (I just counted pills, I have the right number.) :smiley:

#12

I wont argue the point about passing off others work as your own, my only point was that if its that important to you, then you have to provide the software that allows viewing while blocking unauthorized copying.

I save alot of pictures for my own personal reference files, they are for my own modeling projects, particularly when it comes to prototype pics.

#13
TonyWalsham said:
Sounds like someone forgot take their meds.
I agree with Tony... Don't want some one to use or steal pic's then don't post them.. We just took our meds and smiling with no pain or cares... lol :rolleyes: