Google Redesigns Image Search, Raises Copyright and Hosting Concerns

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 5, 2013 @11:19AM from the no-such-thing-as-the-common-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has recently announced changes to its image search. The search provides larger views of the images with direct links to the full-sized source image. Although this new layout is being praised by users for its intuitiveness, it has raised concerns amongst image copyright holders and webmasters. Large images can now easily be seen and downloaded directly from the Google image search results without sending visitors to the hosting website. Webmasters have expressed concerns about a decrease in traffic and an increase in bandwidth usage since this change was rolled out. Some have set up a petition requesting Google remove the direct links to the images."

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Re:Solves a annoying problem. by Cito · 2013-02-05 12:12 · Score: -1, Troll

this is why i never click the image, if it's the size i want I right click -> Copy image
then paste into my pirated photoshop
to fuck with as I please
what's next people whining to photoshop to remove content aware delete that lets me remove their little watermarks and reuse for my own purposes?
sheesh
Re:does not compute by Stiletto · 2013-02-05 15:43 · Score: 1, Troll

Am I the only person amused by the concept of "stealing" something from a website that makes it publicly available?