Public excuses from 1000bit.net webmaster

[Stefan]

Give it a break, its just pictures and its not like he's making a fuss 
about giving credits, removing it etc.
If you absolutely dont want someone using a picture from your site on the 
internet, dont put it there.....

At 09:16 8-5-2005, you wrote:
>There is something I don't understand.
>
>How can you have a policy that "all the material present on the site is
>absolutely freely usable" if the site includes material your users didn't
>give permission to share?  If I were to post information or photos on your
>site, I would assume it's only for that purpose.
>
>It is unethical to open-source things that you don't own.  That is stealing.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
>On Behalf Of Tiziano
>Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:27 AM
>To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>Subject: Public excuses from 1000bit.net webmaster
>
>Hi to everybody,
>   I am the webmaster of 1000bit.net site, I am here to answer about the
>pictures problem you are talking about.
>
>First of all, I would like to tell you something about me.
>I am involved in this hobby since the beginning, every computer I bought is
>still with me. I am one of the organizer of vintage computer events in
>Italy, last year we setup the first Vintage Computer Festival in Italy,
>thanks to Sellam.
>
>My site is online since 1998, under different urls, and this is really a
>long time in internet era. In all this time many things are changed and my
>policy about the use of the pictures is changed too. On my site there are a
>lot of my own pictures, a lot of users pictures, a lot of pictures taken
>from online auctions and some pictures sent by users.
>
>As you can see on my site there isn't any "copyright notice" or "picture
>policy", so all the material present on the site is absolutley freely usable
>and downloadable from anyone, beacuse is intended right in this way.
>
>In the last years I have choosed to keep track and so to give credits to any
>pictures that i found on the net, but the older ones actually doesn't have
>any kind of credits or references.
>
>In all these years no one asked me to remove pictures or something else.
>
>Finally, please don't get angry if you want that I remove "your" picture,
>just drop me an email or better I can give you the credits to you or your
>site without any kind of problems.
>
>My english is worse than "little rough" (thanks Dwight :-))), but I hope my
>intent is clear.
>
>Tix
>www.1000bit.net

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