On 6/30/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/30/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Better turn off the ability to view revisions then...
No. We are totally upfront about the fact that when you press "save" your history is being recorded. Tracking what clicks someone makes before they press save is, well, wrong, deceitful, pointless, ....
Eh, then make sure the quiz doesn't let you know what you did wrong until after you save.
Anyway this is the wrong direction to be heading. There are countless ways we can massively reduce the addition of good-faith copyright violations, by restricting uploads to registered users etc etc etc. Focussing on the few bad eggs who deliberately upload copyrighted images is wasting our time...
You're taking a very black and white look at this... it's not as simple as good-faith vs bad eggs.
It would appear that there is substantial cognitive dissonance between the innate ethics of Joe Sixpack and the requirements of copyright law.
In particular, it appears very common for people to be quite convinced that it's okay to upload anything they were able to obtain off the web at no cost, and also fairly common for people to be convinced that they have complete ownership of things like screenshots they made of movies. This is complicated by the fact that numerous violations and borderline cases exist, so Joe can go point out other cases where images have not yet been deleted which are similar to his.
So you end up with people who would be described as honest and trustworthy who think nothing of iterating through a set of options in order to find one which doesn't cause the computer to say that their image will be deleted.
It's a complicated problem. Personally I'd like to make new users be dropped into a live chat with someone experienced at the time of their first few uploads to consult with them on the image... but scaling that would be a challenge, and I suspect the idea would go over like a lead balloon. "Oh no! it reduces openness!".
Oh, and if you weren't aware. Uploads are already restricted to registered users.