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Gerco · 02-21-2006, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Has Guba offered to pay you restitution and damages for their use of your copyrighted material and/or loss of potential income because of their use of it? Or is giving you access to their site and the use of this search feature what they consider to be a fully equitable trade?

Sorry, but as beneficial to you as the story sounds (which is great for you)...it still sounds like a singular and superficial bandaid to a much larger wound that can't be healed - until the day they remove ALL copyrighted images they don't own and switch to hiring their own models, photographers, photo editors, lighting staff, etc. and doing things the proper legal way like the rest of us.

Of course the answer to this question is no. But, I have to be realistic here. IF I can use them to get to the people actually posting my stuff then they do become the lesser of 2 evils. I shoot my own content. I have built my site up from nothing by myself and spent the last 5 years making it work. Unlike some of the other programs out there I'm 1 guy. 1 guy that has to take care of everything. I don't have the time nor the resources to fight every battle and this one actualy can help me economically fight a few. I'm trying to find a positive way to deal with the issue. Do I agree with what they do... NO but, I have to find the path thats going to help me out better in the long run. So I'm willing to work with it and use it as a tool to see if I can go after the actual posters of my content, the people that are making it availiable without my permission to not only GUBA but to all the hunderds of other systems like them out there. Going after guba, really in the long run does not change things for me, my stuff is still being posted and used by others. I have to goto the SOURCE of the problem to have a fighting chance. Simple as that.