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It is regrettable that many people who were pissed at us took the whole argument to mean that you cannot make your own thumbnails without having a visible watermark on it, or that you cannot make your own thumbnails period. That was never my intention. Perhaps blogs are still a new enough phenomenon that this has not been dealt with up until now. I would have never considered a 700 pixel image to be a thumbnail. Depending on how you use it a 700 pixel image with the watermark removed can very easily look like an attempt to pass it off as your own picture, or at the very least, careless use of copyright material. I can be even worse if the image does not go directly to our gallery or it takes multiple clicks to figure out what you are really looking at. Perhaps a blog template may require images of a certain size or aspect ratio which is fine, though there seems to be a need to do some refining of the definition of a thumbnail and some ground rules as to what can be acceptable. I'm also thinking that providing a watermark psd or png may be the best solution for "giant thumbnails" if you really must use them for your format. Those that believe this is too much work can restrict themselves to a smaller thumbnail. I will create a watermark and update our TOS shortly.
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