Friday, November 21, 2003
Hardball
I just sent the following e-mail to the kind folks at Blogger.com:
Greetings,
The blog http://www.brew82.blogspot.com/ is using my photo as a banner. The picture of Miller Park is hosted at my site at:thediamondangle.com/../outfieldmp.jpg
This user is not only violating my copyright (and your TOS rule 4e), but is also stealing my bandwidth. In theory I can reach some type of agreement about the first issue (in fact, his link back is normally all I ask for), but I take offense at the second. I should not have to pay for extra bandwidth to make his page look pretty.
The e-mail account he provides on the page (brewmaster82@hotmail.com) is not valid. Please either contact the author with this problem, or suspend the blog.
Thank you for your time,
David Marasco
We are fairly loose with our copyrights here at The Diamond Angle. If you like what you've seen, drop us a line and we'll give you permission to reprint. We've had articles placed as widely as About's Economics Portal to Outsports, a gay sports site. What can I say, when we say "The Eclectic Baseball Magazine" we mean it. But bandwidth theft is another matter. If we go past a certain limit, we have to pay for every byte downloaded. For that reason, it's considered to be a high crime on the internet to use images not hosted on your own site.
If the guy had a working e-mail address this could be settled nice and easy. Instead we have to go to the service provider and play hardball. :(
posted by David 1:59 PM
