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Re: Who the hell is Roy Schestowitz?

  • Subject: Re: Who the hell is Roy Schestowitz?
  • From: win.rulez@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: 30 Jun 2006 08:48:47 -0700
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Linonut wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, win.rulez@xxxxxxxxx belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
> > Who is Roy?
> >
> > Roy Schestowitz is a THIEF!!!
> > Roy Schestowitz steals copyrighted images and uses them on his pay for
> > website.
> > Roy Schestowitz has to add posts behind every other post so he can
> > promote his own website and thus make money off of hits.
> > More hits, more money.
> >
> > Roy is the sorriest excuse for a Linux advocate to ever hit COLA.
> > Interesting how his klan
> > (culley,poaster,kent,midget,linonut,kier,chrisv etc)
> > don't seem to complain about his stealing images.
> > That says it all about COLA and Linux.
> > They are a bunch of thieves.
>
> Bullshit.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/dbb4e98895553672?hl=en&;
So, it appears that Roy is using images on his blog that he has
wholesale
copied from the authors without permission.

I noticed this on this article:

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/03/03/scoble-given-up/

Interesting that he credits the image author (for that one), but he
neglected to actually get the authors permission to copy it.  I was
supsicious that this might be the case and emailed the author to find
out.
He confirmed that it was copyright infringement.

If he had merely linked to the image, it would have been more
acceptable,
since he wouldn't have actually copied the image.  However, that would
beg
the bandwidth stealing argument of linking to images on other peoples
sites.

In any event, I have to wonder how many other images on his site have
been
similarly misappropriated.  Many of them have no credits at all.

Bummer for you Roy.


Looks like Roy is a thief to me. He has finally removed the images,
after weeks of leaving them up even though it was morally and ethically
wrong.
But then when did Linux users ever have any morals or ethics.
After all they steadl code, copy Windows, use MSttfonts and libdvdcss
encoders decoders and all kinds of other things without permission from
the authors.
That's Linux and it's users for ya'


> You idiot.

Actually you Linux wacks are th idiots because Roy is laughing all the
way to the bank at the expense of your pathetic newsgroups being
spammed with his news feed.


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