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Originally Posted by inthecrack
Disassociating the legal copyright from it's owner and creator is trivial to you because you didn't create it.
The only people that could be pissed off are those that want to deliberately abuse the TOS and those that might send lots of traffic but generate next to no sales. That still leaves 90% of our affiliate sales. If you read my previous comments you will see that the thickness of my wallet is not my priority here.
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It seems your priority here is that no one questions your ability as a photographer, or touches you "art work" in any other way then what you provided it. That's a great attitude if you run an art studio / gallery.
Also, cropping the pictures where the water mark is no longer on the image doesn't mean that you are giving up legal ownership of the images. The reality is if people want to *steal* your images they will do it. Anyone can take your images and crop off the very top corner and use it however they like. Good luck stopping people or preventing them. HOWEVER this case was one of your affiliates who was linking back to you, built his entire site to promote yours. The people you should be getting pissed at are the ones stealing your images to promote other sites, not the people sending you sales.
If you care about your works of art that much you should lock them up in a safe and never put them online. As much pride you have in your work, you need to have a little loosen up the grip there and balance it with some business sense. You might not be in it for the money, but I have an assumption that if you didn't make sales then you couldn't afford to operate your business.