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Why You Should Never Lose Your Digital Media
kkrista writes "What would you do if you found someone's digital media card from their camera in your taxi? One such individual has decided to provide the world with 227 days of entertainment. I Found Some Of Your Life will post a photo a day and accompanying fictional narrative for the next 227 days using the photos found on a digital media card left in a cab. Is it pure genius or pure evil? Who cares? Just be thankful they're not your photos."
Those ARE my pictures! Please Slashdot them so no one can see them! Thanks.
"Hey Cartman, isn't that your mom?"
Actually, I wish my life were interesting enough right now that somebody would want to build a website based on my photos.
Day 1: This is wrinkledshirt on Slashdot.
Day 2: This is wrinkledshirt on Slashdot.
Day 3: This is wrinkledshirt cursing spymac mail.
Day 4: This is wrinkledshirt cursing Slashdot for not posting his spymac submission.
Day 5: This is wrinkledshirt on Slashdot.
And so on...
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Is it pure genius or pure evil? Who cares? Just be thankful they're not your photos.
Those ARE my photos you insensitive clod!
> Just be thankful they're not your photos.
Fortunately he didn't find the card with pix of his wife.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I wholeheartedly agree.
Regards,
Arthur Goatse.cx, Sr.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
We have irrefutable proof those are not your photos:
There are girls in the pictures.
Everyone has their clothes on! That sucks!
ok look at this picture. The girl in the left side with the with skirt has a tag that says says that she loves linux! It has 3 pictures of tux! oh wait... it seems it says "I love delta delta delta".... or is it?
Yea, I remember your pictures, they were boring.
Oh, and that Thunderbird in the yard runs Linux. Oh yea, I went there...
It's funny because you don't know the person.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
Unless finding it in the back of a cab counts as a "transfer of ownership".
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
Slightly over-the-hill women from Thailand and Surinam stand in them wearing unflattering negligees and smoking mini-cigars. Packs of drunken English lager louts stumble by and dare the youngest, most naive lad among them to go inside, which he does. Fifteen minutes later he emerges, shellshocked and dead sober. When he gets home to Gormless Crescent he resolves never to drink with those boys again.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
Sooo... what if I aim the camera and my buddy presses the button?
What if I take a perfectly framed picture of a copyrighted picture? Do I then own the copyright?
What if the shutter button is pressed by two people simultaneously?
Maybe there is a complex multi-key system like they have in those submarine nuke movies. I suppose it's whoever turns the key last.
I guess they could both turn the key at the same time.
Of course, If you follow Einstein at all, you know that there is no way to know who turned the key last - and that it's impossible for them to turn at the same time.
You could argue that I didn't personally press the button. There are a number of bacteria and other assorted lifeforms on my findertips. The bacteria probably own the picture.
Can bacteria own things?
Karma: -2147483648 (Mostly affected by integer overflow)
I had some photos of my then girlfriend in various comprimising positions
Now we *KNOW* you're lying.
paintball
What have they lost?
Well, a memory card for one.
Hello and welcome to Blackmail! The way this works is we post once picture a day, but at any time you can email our hot..er.line and pay the amount of money listed at the bottom of the page to have the pictures removed.
Each day the price doubles...
With kudos to Python
That is the last time I'll every trust my proctologist again...
Regards,
Arthur Goatse.cx, Sr
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LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!
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Only in the land of the free, where a family can be "very poor" and still own a digital camera.
You should start digicam-bombing people instead. Food is soo 1990.
Real men don't keep backups, they lose them in a taxi and mirror them on the internet.
That was unexpected.
Game... blouses.
Now I'm rethinking my strategy. Maybe I should erase that information. I'd hate for someone to post my photos of my life AND my name!
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell
asshat
n.
one who leaves his $400 camera (with personal porn) in the vehicle when taking it to a repair shop.
NO ONE exp...ah, nevermind
IANAL
Found this site LawGuru Copyright defined.
Excerpt:
13.- 7. Requisites after the grant. No person shall be entitled to the benefitof this act, unless he shall give information of copyright being secured,by-causing to be inserted, in the several copies of each and every editionpublished during the term secured, on the title page, or the page immediatelyfollowing, if it be a book, or, if a map, chart, musical composition, print,cut, or engraving, by causing to be impressed on the face thereof, or ifa volume of maps, charts, music or engravings, upon the title or frontispicethereof, the following words, viz: " Entered according to act of congress,in the year by A. B., in the clerk"s office of the district court of ___________________"(as the case may be.)
The owner of the media likely did not insert any copyright notice into the media (either by labeling the media or posting in the media contents). I'm not sure that copyright applies here. Now going to a personal example, my church has Ollan Mills (photo company) take family photos for the church directory. The company also offers the photos for sale to the family. When looking at past photos before deciding to make a purchase, I asked if I could get the photo without a little overlay of the Ollan Mills logo. The photographer said that I couldn't have the photo without that mark as they copyright all their photos by including the logo (which does include a (C)).
I guess I'm not convinced that the media owner really has a copyright on the material if they never showed intention to copyright.
Music Theory has been worthless ever since Bach's Cathedral was built!
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.