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- robbh66, on 12/13/2007, -7/+136One blog site steals from another blog site?
Oh the humanity! - wafflesomd, on 12/13/2007, -13/+92No one gives a ***** about bloggers.
- Nougat, on 12/13/2007, -3/+75What? They didn't take anything from him; he's still got the pictures. Who's it hurting?
Oh wait, sorry, it was an image, not an MP3. Never mind. - Lexcyn, on 12/13/2007, -6/+63For great justice.
- DarkDx, on 12/13/2007, -6/+581. You need to post a india-xbox-related post. (actually these 2 posts were made by different authors)
2. You go to google images trying to find some picture for your article and get those 2 images in the FIRST page: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=xbox+360+i ...
3. It's not like they went directly to neowin.net to steal the images... - mayan, on 12/13/2007, -11/+62Dude's being a whiner. If you don't want people using your images:
1. Watermark them or
2. Block the google image robot so no one can find them using "xbox india" or
3. Don't put them on the internet at all.
So simple, it hurts. - runpete, on 12/13/2007, -0/+42I'm going to write to the Consumerist about this and make sure no one ever uses Kotaku again! (end of sarcasm)
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -2/+32UH OH BASGETTIOS
- Psygnosis, on 12/13/2007, -1/+29OMG!!! Kotaku takes pictures from google image search!! It's a conspiracy!!!
- xxb10h4z4i2dxx, on 12/13/2007, -21/+48pwnd, good work.
Neowin roxs my sox. - hammerpants, on 12/13/2007, -3/+26I'm a pro photog/writer. You don't need permission from people in a public place. In fact, you can publish shots through people's windows as long as you don't use a zoom lens.
- dkoon, on 12/13/2007, -22/+42Did that cry baby Neowin's forum members get permission from the people in that photos?
Seriously, Digg is friggin filled with retards and hypocrites.
Oh ***** RIAA not letting you steal their music, DIGG! Damn, Kotaku stole the photo that you took, DIGG! - deuceswilde, on 12/13/2007, -6/+25Look, taking pictures and giving no credit is a crappy thing to do, but I think you're blowing the severity of this way out of proportion. The main issue here is that Kotaku makes ad revenue, so by being a for profit site you could argue that they illegally profited from the image. But the contribution that the one picture made, versus the ad revenue for a single day would be miniscule. On top of that, if this "Blogger" were so damn concerned about this happening he should put a copyright watermark somewhere on the picture. I'm not saying what Kotaku did was right, but lets have some perspective on this too.
- geartype2, on 12/13/2007, -2/+19with your logic anything found in google is public domain?
- seattle98104, on 12/13/2007, -5/+21It doesn't matter how you found them, it's the fact that Kotaku failed in journalism 101: credit your source.
- krystalo, on 12/13/2007, -7/+22Read the article, he did. How do you mistakenly take an image, crop it, and post it elsewhere? Twice?
- Dadaluma, on 12/13/2007, -5/+18The two articles aren't by the same author. Anyway if you search "xbox 360 india" on Google images those two images come up as the first result. They probably just quickly grabbed them from Google images and didn't bother to check the source. Not condoning Kotaku's actions, but it IS an easy mistake to make.
- Okari, on 12/13/2007, -0/+12They weren't bought off by M$. Crecente has had his 360 break 9 or so times and has complained about it on Kotaku. If anything, they're more biased towards Wii stories.
- myheaditches, on 12/13/2007, -1/+11Digg's "thing" is to cripple poorly hosted websites, and to laugh at lolcats and their kin. Anything else requires too many neurons.
- inactive, on 12/13/2007, -0/+10Rememeber...itis not stealing if the owner is not deprived of the original item. Diggers say that all the time to justify file sharing.
- DreamVsPs2, on 12/13/2007, -2/+12At least give the guy some credit.
- willrs, on 12/13/2007, -1/+9yes, i know exactly what to do.
digg you down for being a *****. - jun2san, on 12/13/2007, -0/+8I think I might have laughed for 5 minutes straight at this comment.
- Import98, on 12/13/2007, -0/+8Maybe I'd care if the articles weren't from Feb and Oct.
- themastersb, on 12/13/2007, -2/+9Well the pictures were cropped/altered so he can't do anything now. Or at least that's how eBaums would think.
- Inferny, on 12/13/2007, -6/+13It doesn't matter if they searched Google and found the images like that, they still should have credited the source.
- blup3ace, on 12/13/2007, -10/+17Kotaku is a professional blog, and it is expected of all blogs, especially those at the level of kotaku, to credit their sources.
Disappointing. - GawtMilk, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8Cue the inane "I will never use Kotaku again for anything; ever!" statements.
- Books, on 12/13/2007, -4/+11Ya, how many times have you googled an image and used it? So why are people complaining this time? If you don't want an image stolen then take some steps to protect it. I never check the source...I just look for keywords, good resolution and bam!
I mean, if it's on the internet...isn't it there for everyone to use? - legendofxix, on 12/13/2007, -7/+13To everyone who says that the blogger who took the images shouldn't care, you guys are ***** retards.
Stealing is stealing. Especially when your stuff is posted for a large audience on a site that makes PROFIT. - JagoX, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6...except the bloggers that run Kotaku ARE NOT journalists nor do they have the maturity or professionalism to be one.
- Rudy69, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7he already emailed them
- merdiesel, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6What is with all the motivational "Come on guys! you can do it!.. go on Digg this, digg it right up to the top!" crap in here, GTFO of here with that..
- honeymustardn, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7I will never use Kotaku again for anything; ever!
- LoopyChew, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6Fine, fine line being walked here. The analogy you're using ("you wouldn't steal a bike!") is the exact same analogy the RIAA uses in their cases.
While I get your point, I feel that if you don't take basic precautions to protect your material (e.g. keep it off Google Images, or put a watermark on it, or post it to Flickr and assign a CC license to it), you've given it up to the public domain. And when it's there, while it may not be tasteful to copy without attribution (if attribution could be found--in this case, how were they to know it belonged to neowin if they used Google Images?), it's not worth all the hate. - chazbone, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6I Love You.
- AZTriGuy, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6Gizmodo did that to them already in the trash-talking run up to their big Halo 3 match. Kotaku had linked to some image on Gizmodo, so they changed it to Tubgirl. A lot of people were really pissed at Lam that day.
- honeymustardn, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7I think he meant "cue".
- luckyzzkl, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6I think you missed Nougat's sarcastic point :P
- SonicRift, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5Maybe they did credit the guy, but then read that they had credited someone named "Prince17", thought that looked stupid, and took it off.
As for Kotaku being "bought off" by "m$", I've always thought they were pretty hard on the 360. Frequent tales of RRoDs whenever a staff members cousin's fiance's sister's dog's previous owner's 360 dies, its news. - CannibalTom, on 12/13/2007, -3/+8Why was this submitted on digg?
- Solis, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5Could you be more inept?
- democracysucks, on 12/13/2007, -6/+11Kotaku does this all the time. It's sort of annoying, but it's to be expected from them.
- ayeroxor, on 12/13/2007, -2/+7Buried and blocked. I hope you're not an adult yet. Adults really ought to be able to comprehend attribution and proper courses of action.
- saucedmike, on 12/13/2007, -3/+8Move Zig!
- nreynolds, on 12/13/2007, -3/+8I'm sorry, my brain-filter doesn't allow the word "livejournal" to be part of any URL I'm trying to get to.
- SteelFrog, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5818.18~
- staffrocket, on 12/13/2007, -1/+69/11 x 1,000!
- janette68, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5Funny - it is often the bloggers who rip pictures from legitimate news-websites. I know Im gonna get a lot of greif over that statement lol.
- captainwtf, on 12/13/2007, -2/+7Who gives a *****?
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