[babygene]

" I don't download an article from a website, I read it on their website with their accompanying ads, fees or other ways they support their site."


Just out of curiosity, when one goes to your profile page, there is what looks like a professionally taken picture of some horses with Santa hats on. I assume you took the originals?

It used to be that only things that were so marked were protected by copyright law. Going back even further, things had to be registered. Today neither are requirements. Almost all work by professional photographers is copyrighted.

[HairOfTheDog]

Thank you very much! But those are my own photos of my own animals, cut and pasted from different photographs, resized to proportion and arranged together. I drew the little Santa hats in MS Paint. All of the photos on my profile page, except the stolen hobbit cartoon, (oh... and the one of the brave kitty) are my own, including the oil painting at the bottom.

Of course I have taken images from websites and posted them here in threads. If you knew me at all, you would know that I have, and named better examples. I love to share stills from Lord of the Rings, which is of course, not mine. I told you I am not blameless, I admitted that.

[HairOfTheDog]

I am not quite sure where we differ. I admit to copying stuff off the internet. I just didn't say it was right.

In the case where I am copying something that would otherwise be for sale, like songs and movies, I think it is wrong to steal it if its creator doesn't authorize it being copied on the internet. I don't think there should be a huge controversy about that. It is wrong to steal it.