Petition - Stop Watermarking Images!

It is understandable when a website is offering free HD movie trailers given the bandwidth and storage required does cost quite a bit, but watermarking every single image and low quality piece of crap video is just ridiculous.

Take IGN or GameSpy for instance, if you're a subscriber you should at least get the option of not having to put up with watermarked videos and images - HD or not. To everyone else, it still makes no sense why they would watermark a 1280x720 screen shot of a game, often times they are just ripped right off another website.

I've even seen poorly done magazine scans having huge watermarks - if you don't own it don't brand it as such. It isn't just game sites, websites like Zune Scene really go overboard with it.

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Comment by Deltafyr

April 25th 2007 11:20

PK the watermarkers!!!!

Comment by Anonymous

April 25th 2007 16:53

Why are you picking on Zune Scene? They have no subscription fees they should mark all the photos they want if they took the photo themselves. Viva la watermerkers.

Comment by Ahmed

April 25th 2007 23:53

Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks

Images don't take up much space or bandwidth, they are basically free, I mean so long as they are watermarking images they can go ahead and watermark their text, I don't see a difference there.

Heck, I upload images all the time to this blog and others, I never watermark anything, in one instance it took me like an hour and a half to upload a set of images and I still ddidn't watermark any of them.

Watermarking images is mean and greedy.

Comment by Anonymous

April 27th 2007 14:44

The difference is that you can't watermark text. Hence it gets stolen. Here is an example from as recent as yesterday:

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gives no mention of the source here

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This kind of thing happens daily to Zunescene. I should know.

Comment by Ahmed

April 28th 2007 12:08

Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks

So what if it gets stolen? Lifes tough like that and you can't stop the morons, I don't like seeing pictures with watermarks, I don't ever see it as justified, I should know too, I used to spend hours screengrabbing from videos, never ever watermarked them.

Comment by Encyclopedia

May 2nd 2007 14:13

Your response to anonymous is idiotic. She gave the exact reason why this should happen. People are working hard to create content and it gets pilfered by theives. Your response: "I don't like seeing pictures with watermarks". (then gripe at the thieves, not those trying to protect themselves). That was a thoughtful comment and you didn't think about your response.

Comment by Ahmed

May 2nd 2007 14:17

Video Gamer Kids
Little Green Foosballs
PolyKicks

No I did, lifes tough, especially online, work gets stolen all the time, in the whole you can't stop the thieves but you can make the life of legitimate users harder as they have to put up with your watermarks.

If someone wants to steal your article or picture, they will, simple as that, you can't fend them off so theres no reason to fight an enemy that cannot be fought.

I dislike how software companies treat users like criminals with their crippling software protection schemes, I don't see how this is any different.

Comment by Anonymous

August 15th 2008 21:19

You guys are selfish idiots. If you don't like watermarking, go make something of your own. People have every right to water mark something that they own, and have every right to prevent people from stealing their stuff, no mater what it takes. Stealing images is a violation of copyright, and it's illegal.

Once again, if you don't like watermarked images, pass on over it and either find another one or make your own.

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