Posted by Jose on 01/24/06 06:22

> What is this supposed to mean?

The PP was comparing protecting images on the net to locking the front
door (it stops the causal thief). I was pointing out that the casual
thief does real damage when goods are stolen, but probably does not do
much damage when a web image is "stolen" (and probably just used for
desktop wallpaper). The less causal thief (say, a webmaster who wants
an image for their site) is probably able to circumvent image protection
anyway.

> You can guess but you cannot know in advance what contexts there
> are in which folk might want to make it harder to copy images and
> so you cannot judge that it might always be clueless.

No, but I can guess the effect. No matter what context there is, images
are easy to steal.

Jose
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