Hey, lemme ask you something. If somebody uploads something, and you upload, like, the exact same file somewhere else, without linking to the original designated artists url, what do you call that?
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What you’re complaining about is the same image being reposted multiple times…
That’s not necessarily reposting, and probably make up a minority or reposts
AllegraGory@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 days ago
and you upload, like, the exact same file somewhere else,
Rehosting, which is what I just said…
What you’re complaining about is the same image being rehosted multiple times…
I don’t know if repeating it will get us to a different result tho
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Decentralization
AllegraGory@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Wrong!
It’s theft. You are stealing from artists.
who@feddit.org 4 days ago
It’s theft. You are stealing from artists.
No, it is not theft. Not in the dictionary sense. Not in the legal sense. Not in any sense at all.
It might be copyright infringement, inappropriate, and/or rude, depending on the particulars and the jurisdiction. But your claim that it is theft demonstrates that you either have no idea what you’re talking about, or you are deliberately misleading people.
Please stop.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 days ago
Coincidence?
AllegraGory@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Don’t get chesty with me just because you’ve got a problem with your station in life!
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 days ago
Yes, sir/ma’am. Sorry, sir/ma’am. Won’t happen again, sir/ma’am.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m not positive, but I think OP is possibly extremely poorly communicating their position.
I think @AllegraGory@sh.itjust.works means:
“If a creator of original content posts their content online, subsequent posters shouldn’t capture/crop/alter that work then upload it elsewhere robbing the original content creator of attribution or the monetary gains they might received from hosting it on their original site. Instead, what subsequent posters should do is link to the original content at the original URL leaving the creator in full control of the hosting and perhaps any revenue they would receive from their work”
I’m not taking a position either way on this with my post merely translating what I think OP is actually trying to say. OP, please correct me if I’m wrong.