Do-It-Yourself – Web site ImgRed lets you quickly embed an image from another web site and embed it elsewhere without leeching bandwidth from the source. Just grab the URL of the image and append it to http://imgred.com/. The site copies the image to their server the first time it's requested, then serves it up permanently.
49 votes !?! Please if you can't host an image don't encourage linking -- this is someone elses material that you are using without sourcing or permission.
I submitted this link because I thought it was a great way to share images without stealing bandwidth from an third party.
I don't believe this encourages stealing, though I suppose if someone is inclined to hotlink an image, they're going to steal images no matter what.
Good, responsible Internet users know to look for Creative Commons licensed photos, include text links to the original material in their respective posts, and take steps to ensure that credit is given to the image's creator.
This isn't about stealing images, it's about *preventing* stealing bandwidth.
craig's right. if you don't have permision to use an image you are stealing it. it's the same as downloading music and not paying for it. what do you think the result will be when photographers, musicians and other artists can no longer feed their families because some of you think you deserve something for nothing?
If I put an image on my blog to make a comment about it, it's the same as taking a quote from a news article. ImgRed provides a way to do that without also costing that person money in the form of bandwidth.
Now if I took the image and said I created it, and then sold it to other people, that would be copyright infringement which is wrong.
actually just using a copyrighted image without permission is against the law. it doesn't matter if you are charging to view it or not. the holder of the copyright is the only entity that has the right to reproduce (copy) their copyrighted image. if you get permission from the creator then your use is legal, if you don't get permission your use is illegal.
the neg vote here tells me that you don't care if artists are able to feed their families. i'm not sure if you are legitimately anti-art or mearly foolish.
The negative vote was because you don't seem to understand why this was posted. It's not to steal someone else's ideas. I frequently post images on my blog to comment on, which falls under fair use, as do many other people. I have my own web host, which means I can download the images so that I'm not using up their bandwidth and costing them money.
Other people use services like Blogger or LiveJournal and can't download these images to their host and therefore use the copyright holder's bandwidth despite using the art under fair use. ImgRed allows them to put this image on their blog without costing the copyright holder any money.
To summarize: It's not about stealing content. It's about not stealing bandwidth.
hi icelander, i appreciate your reply and i agree that this article wasn't written to encourage people to steal art. it really focuses on a more techincal aspect of the copying images. however, there are a lot of misconceptions about copying images and what is allowed, for example, the meaning of the term "fair use". copying an image to comment on is not automatically protected by "fair use".
here's a link to a Stanford report: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_...
you can see that one of the questions that is used in determining "fair use" is will this use deprive the copyright owner of income? that is open to wide interpretation.
I'd argue that by taking a political cartoon and commenting on it on my blog, I'd be under fair use so long as I provided a link back to the original image. And if I used a service like ImgRed to do it, it would be even more fair use because I'm not depriving them of content, nor am I costing them money by hotlinking to their image.
But it's fairly trivial to set up your web server so that you can only see the images within the original context.
And it would be even better if artists used the Creative Commons license rather than copyrighting their works. This would allow people greater freedom in creating derivatives, and gives the owner of the works greater flexibility in what they allow done with their works.
Here is another alternative for Linux users
who use the KDE desktop. Simply use ksnapshot
on the image and save it to your disk.
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Then create an account on: http://www.divshare.com/.
Upload the image to a folder that you create.
Then, you can embed that link to your image anywhere,
just like this one of my desktop.
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Since when OS2X, is it stealing to create your own
images and share them on another site?.
keyfitter,
i'm not sure exactly what you are saying here but the unauthorized use of any portion of a copyrighted image, be it a photograph or graphic to create a "new" public work is a violation of the law. is that what you meant by "create" your own?
What I meant by creating my own images, is
exactly that. A link that I put in a previous
post was of an image created by myself, to share
on Linux forums. It had nothing to do with stealing
copyrighted material, as OS2X seemed to think.
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Anyone should know that copyrighted materials are
off limits for reproduction, whether it is a book,
or a photograph on the web.
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I don't think that the article was posted by Wil,
with the intention of showing people how to steal.
i don't think that was the intent of the article either. please don't misunderstand that. i'm just asking questions and presenting some info on current copyright laws. i would like the readers to understand that "creating" something using all or part of anothers original work is appropriately illegal. i bring it up because as an artist, i have been profoundly effcted by this problem.
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