Comments on: Desktop pictures - Computer wallpaper

Desktop pictures - Computer wallpaper

hypersloth — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:10:46 -0800

Hi-Res Photos for the Masses! How about that bandwidth?

By: hypersloth

hypersloth — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:11:23 -0800

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By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:19:07 -0800

I assume that the flickr members whose work is being re-categorised and downloaded have been notified?

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:52:11 -0800

All the photos link back to the original Flickr page, and there's nothing on this site you couldn't get via Flickr. I didn't know there was a law against categorising copyrighted works, chuckdarwin? I'd better let my library know, that Dewey Decimal System is going to get them in trouble with the law...

By: cavalier

cavalier — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:14:57 -0800

Why is everybody being a prick lately? Geez! Love your fellow man, people!

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:20:53 -0800

cavalier: there's some stuff in this one that suggests it's been built from the ground up for SEO. Once it does the rounds of the link sites, the ads will get a lot more intrusive. That may be why chuckdarwin's bridling against it.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:21:54 -0800

But it wasn't even chuck's comment I was talking about! *whimper*

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:24:34 -0800

Oops. Sorry, in that case. I'll go stand in the corner...

By: cavalier

cavalier — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:25:44 -0800

Just do what I do. Flag my comments as derail and move on. Sorry guys, just read too much negativity on the blue this weekend.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:29:50 -0800

I wasn't thinking of legality as much as ethics and manners. If one of my photos was on that page, I'd want to know about it. Ettiquette.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:00:55 -0800

chuckyD, I admire your ability to dream the impossible dream.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:52:48 -0800

Im in ur flickr, recategorizing ur photos.

By: oddman

oddman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:06:28 -0800

Well, let me say (and this may be a first for me) that I really appreciate having this brought to my attention. I love having unusual and striking images (there's a great oranges photo in the circles category) as my wallpapers. Thanks, hypersloth.

By: chuckdarwin

chuckdarwin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:21:22 -0800

Somebody's got to, srboisvert! Otherwise, I'd drown in a sea of my own cynicism.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:22:02 -0800

I just got back from vacation, so I put in the name of where we stayed, and got to see lots of good pictures. Thanks.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:42:04 -0800

Cynicism is more of a desert than a sea. One drowns in a sea of bliss or anihilliation in the Divine. One withers and dies in the desert of cynicism.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:28:54 -0800

chuckdarwin writes "I wasn't thinking of legality as much as ethics and manners. If one of my photos was on that page, I'd want to know about it.

"Ettiquette." I only request to be notified if someone has photoshopped a cartoon dick and balls on my forehead or has me fellating a Bush cabinet member. A fella has to draw the line somewhere.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:44:02 -0800

Aye Kevin; for a forehead cock and balls probably best to draw the line midway between the eyebrows and hairline. That leaves room for a decently pendulous sack. It's a question of balancing rights, responsibilities and whatever side a gentleman dresses.

By: geos

geos — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:57:48 -0800

Cynicism is more of a desert than a sea. Think of it as a large acidic lake, like Lake Baikal.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:26:24 -0800

Think of it as a large acidic lake, like Lake Baikal. I probably don't have any Mongol in my blood (though it would be cool if I did!), so I won't raze your village for besmirching the sacred Lake that fueled the hopes and dreams of a liberator.

By: squeak

squeak — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:32:33 -0800

and there's nothing on this site you couldn't get via Flickr. Except, if I had set my flickr page up to prevent anyone from accessing "all sizes" on my photo's, I'd be somewhat miffed that some site was overriding my settings.

By: acro

acro — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:51:40 -0800

Awfully similar layout to the 'videowall' site recently seen here.

By: shanevsevil

shanevsevil — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:27:39 -0800

There's an excellent flickr group for people to post their desktop pictures too by the way, if this mashup rubs you the wrong way.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:09:47 -0800

Jimbob: "All the photos link back to the original Flickr page, and there's nothing on this site you couldn't get via Flickr. I didn't know there was a law against categorising copyrighted works, chuckdarwin?" There are laws against using photos that are copyrighted (another, and another) without the rights holder's permission, even if you're just hotlinking to them on Flickr. There are others that are shared with a "non-commercial" Creative Commons license, and I'm not sure if inline ads violate that. Also, the third of my examples has been uploaded to Flickr with "all sizes" turned off. It's only a fluke of the way that Flickr does permissions that allows this site to show the full size version against the photographer's wishes. (I only had to look at a handful to get these examples, so something tells me there's a lot of them.) Disclaimer: All of my photos on Flickr have full sizes available, and are uploaded with the most-BSD-like attribution Creative Commons license, and I wish that was the way everyone did it. But this is still at best extremely unethical.

By: geos

geos — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:13:21 -0800

I probably don't have any Mongol in my blood (though it would be cool if I did!), so I won't raze your village for besmirching the sacred Lake that fueled the hopes and dreams of a liberator. Blame Stalin, not me. I bet you could set Lake Baikal on fire now, that would be impressive.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:13:46 -0800

You'd want to "know about it" if your photos were linked to on this site? That wouldn't take long, I imagine the extra traffic and comments it would generate would let you know you were being featured here fairly quickly :) Sorry. My attitude on this issue is biased by my loathing of people who upload 640x480 images to Flickr, cover them with watermarks, and/or expect Flickr to somehow "protect" them from being "downloaded". Flickr is about photosharing. Fuck you if you won't even let me put your picture on my private computer desktop. Good on you Plutor for being one of the good guys.

By: xlcus

xlcus — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:51:15 -0800

Well for all those moaners, the site now only displays photos that have Creative Commons "Attribution", "Attribution-NoDerivs", and "Attribution-ShareAlike" licences.

By: dmd

dmd — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:06:30 -0800

All the photos link back to the original Flickr page Err - no, they don't. Unless I'm missing something, they link directly to the static image at the flickr image farm, which is specifically prohibited by Flickr's TOS.

By: dmd

dmd — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:07:39 -0800

Sorry, my mistake. There is indeed a tiny link at the top of the page.

By: joelf

joelf — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:12:07 -0800

http://metafilter.wallpaper.sytes.org/

By: joelf

joelf — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:14:41 -0800

it just searches tags, you can do that with flicker anyways.

By: oxford blue

oxford blue — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:16:27 -0800

How nice that the copyright infringer joins us (I refer to xlcus, of course). Welcome to our community. Why perhaps you can find more material to steal from our rich and diverse community? Could you please tell us exactly how parasitic you feel violating the copyright of others for your own finical gain? For those that are uncertain about what career to take how easy is it to become a bottom-feeder? Do they take applications and resumes, or is the only prerequisite a few extra chromosomes? Still, it must be nice to feel like a big powerful internet man. I can only imagine the respect that must bring. Thank you, really, the internet is a much better place with people like you around.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:09:17 -0800

Stop being an ass, oxford blue.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:52:14 -0800

xlcus: Don't listen to oxford blue. We appreciate you changing the site to pay attention to the licenses. There have been some recent high profile instances of photos being stolen from Flickr and it's nice to know that you weren't doing it on purpose. Welcome to MetaFilter, hope you stick around.

By: xlcus

xlcus — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:26:20 -0800

Thanks for your warm welcome Plutor.

By: acro

acro — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:30:14 -0800

hi xlcus—the videowall is great too! "awfully similar"... duh.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:58:16 -0800

squeak writes "if I had set my flickr page up to prevent anyone from accessing 'all sizes' on my photo's, I'd be somewhat miffed that some site was overriding my settings." You'd better stop uploading those sizes, Flickr's "protection" is so trivial I doubt it would be valid as a protection method under the DMCA.

By: baker dave

baker dave — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:29:45 -0800

well said cavalier

By: squeak

squeak — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:05:55 -0800

this is way late You'd better stop uploading those sizes, Flickr's "protection" is so trivial I doubt it would be valid as a protection method under the DMCA. I agree with you and, pretty much consigned myself to the idea if I put anything online it could be used whether I agree to it or not. But, I wonder why a developer who taps into flickr's API can override a user's preferences. With my limited understanding of how API's work, this seems to be flickrs problem and, not random joe developer who uses it.