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Originally Posted by Brujah
Google shows thumbnails, and I get some decent google image traffic. Why would you want to shutdown the image traffic google sends you ?
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I don't know about other people, but I tend to view both Google and Yahoo in the same light. The images are not theirs to do with as they please. Whether they contribute to traffic or not (and in our case the traffic is insignificant at most)...the point is - its not
their call to make.
In the case of Yahoo, they've made revenue both directly and indirectly from our original images for many years without our permission. People illegally reposted our content on their Yahoo groups (and Clubs, before that)...and Yahoo was then able to sell print services on those same images.
Two Yahoo groups in particular (that we knew of) ripped hundreds of images from our pay sections and filled their groups with them, thus providing free access to our content and quite possibly dissuading surfers from possibly paying for membership. Result - potential loss of livelihood to us.
When we went to the time and effort to file DMCA complaints against them, it resulted in Yahoo deleting OUR Yahoo group and terminating our member accounts. No reason was given. Our group obeyed Yahoo's TOS and contained only our own original copyrighted content.