Bandwidth Theft
Feb 6th, 2006 by Don Ray
While it may be just an oversight, today I noticed that an individual who goes by the nickname of Panamared had used a large number of the photos I had taken and presented them in his post on the Skyscraper City Website. While he didn’t overtly give acknowledgement to this website for the photos, he inadvertently did because just pointed his article to URLs of my photos in the Coppermine album. If you right click on a photo and look at the Properties, they give the origin of the photo and the location from which it is downloaded. All he needed to do was ask if he could use the photos in a write-up he was making and I would have given him permission. Of course I would have expected him to download them and put them on his own server so that he was not using my bandwidth in his article.
Bandwidth theft is a large problem on the Internet. Sometimes it is through ignorance and sometimes it isn’t. I don’t know which case this falls under.
As an update, I have granted Panamared the right to use the David Photos in his write-up with the stipulation that his write-up gives credit to Chiriqui Chatter for their use. Apparently he did not read the license. Since his write-up will provide more visibility to David, I will absorb the bandwidth. What he intends to do, I do not know.
I’m glad you were able to communicate with the person and come to an amicable solution. It doesn’t usually work out this way.
i’m glad that you give me permission to use your photos and i will be glad to acknowledge your website and give you all the credit for the photos.
thank, panamared.
Happy to do it Panamared. I appreciate that you are promoting the Chiriqui Province.