Quote by KorganoSThe point is,
I think the person who is responsible for the uploadings the walls to other sites should ask the original authors for
their permissions first.... that's not a hard thing to do, and that way, noone will feel bad about
it.
That's all well and good, but what about the person who downloads the wallpaper from the
person who uploaded it. . . and decided to go ahead and upload it to yet another website? Or what about someone who
torrents a batch of Minitokyo wallpapers? In all honesty, if we made that kind of requirement, we wouldn't be able
to enforce it, and there is nothing weaker than a requirement that cannot be regulated.
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Addendum: In short, I think people need to re-evaluate their expectations of
interacting in the greater sphere of the Internet. What we should do is reach an understanding with primary
distributors, whether websites or trackers, such that Mintokyo items are acceptable as long as others don't claim
the works as their own or modify them. That way, blatant theft of work can be clamped down upon.
Basically, If we raise a huge fuss over people posting without having first obtained permission in every last instance,
we may very well just be annoying the admins of the distro sites, and they might not even be willing to listen to us in
the future.
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