On 6/30/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/30/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)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.