IamClarice: I stole pix. From this site

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

IamClarice: I stole pix. From this site

arbet:

New bloggers, this is how you do it (getting photos for your blogpost). /sarcasm

iamclaricer:

http://www.frannywanny.com/2011/10/starbucks-planner-2012-ready-get-set.html#more

So pathetic blogging all over the net that she saw her pix on my site and her water marks gone… next time don’t share pix if you’re not willing to see it on other pages.. and I’m not a google.com and yahoo.com for…

Ah Internet drama. It’s been a while and at 11am with little sleep for the last few days I might as well chime in. Also, Franny’s pretty cool so…

My dear Clarice, for a MassComm and HRM major to have already held positions (According to your public information) as “Finance at Sprint Nextel” and “Senior Manager at JP Morgan Chase”, one would hope you’d be at least bright enough to not admit stealing someone else’s content.

That said, I wonder about your current “position” as a “research associate” for an international media company. What exactly are you researching that has kept you in the dark for so long about the concept of ownership of content? It must be REALLY IMPORTANT. I also wonder what your employers would think about having someone on their research team that knows nothing about the legality of publishing somebody else’s work…

Stealing is bad; it is against the teachings of every religion and against the canon of every law known to humanity. Stealing is never justified, much less paraded about in public. It is nothing to be proud of. People get punished for stealing, for that matter.

And you yourself admitted it: you stole pictures from a website. You STOLE them. You don’t own those pictures, you never took those pictures, you took them and ran away with them for your own use, you stole them. Rumors weren’t spread about you: after all, for all intents and purposes, you admitted to stealing those pictures anyway. Not only did you go against the laws of God and man and the Internet but you yourself admitted to an act of stealing.

Worse is that you’ve justified that act of stealing in ways Congressmen and politicians wouldn’t dream of doing: that it’s OK to steal.

That, my friend, is absurd.