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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 145881" data-attributes="member: 9240">It's not a personal concern as much as it is a concern for the rights of all artists.&nbsp; Just because someone can strip information off and do something with an image doesn't mean it's not illegal.&nbsp; I could give a rats behind about my images, but I know people who make a living with a camera, and just as I watched as musicians struggle to make a living in the digital age, I feel for these artists.&nbsp; But to the point of all this, the paranoia here results in what amounts to a Government Blessing of Copyright Theft.&nbsp; Big corporations with the ability to employ a room full of internet monitors looking for violators (who will receive cease and desist letters and perhaps notifications of other legal action), the small artist is already screwed to begin with.&nbsp; That's the real problem here.&nbsp; The rest is the same old, same old that we've been dealing with all along.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 145881, member: 9240"] It's not a personal concern as much as it is a concern for the rights of all artists. Just because someone [B][I]can[/I][/B] strip information off and do something with an image doesn't mean it's not illegal. I could give a rats behind about my images, but I know people who make a living with a camera, and just as I watched as musicians struggle to make a living in the digital age, I feel for these artists. But to the point of all this, the paranoia here results in what amounts to a [B][I]Government Blessing of Copyright Theft[/I][/B]. Big corporations with the ability to employ a room full of internet monitors looking for violators (who will receive cease and desist letters and perhaps notifications of other legal action), the small artist is already screwed to begin with. [B][I]That's [/I][/B]the real problem here. The rest is the same old, same old that we've been dealing with all along. [/QUOTE]

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