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Offline Nash

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remember Major Mark Beiger?
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2006, 01:01:46 AM »
Awww..... are you calling me names now?

Jeepers, I feel just terrible about all of this.

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« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2006, 03:56:00 AM »
Nash, what you don't get it that a FRENCH company is the bad bad bad man here... THAT's what makes the difference!
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« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2006, 05:50:39 AM »
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Nash, what you don't get it that a FRENCH company is the bad bad bad man here... THAT's what makes the difference!


No, it doesn't. Not at all. But then, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2006, 06:22:56 AM »
You can always find people who will parrot "I care about the troops, I support the troops" but you find out if they really mean it when something like this happens.

It seems they DON'T care when the truth about the troops, and how much they (the troops) care, what their mission means to them, and how good a job they are doing, when their image is subverted to further "the cause" of being anti war.

Anyone who really cared about the troops would be angered by the fact that Major Mark Beiger's image was stolen from its rightful owner, and used in a manner neither Major Beiger nor the owner of that particular image would ever agree to, for "shock" and effect. It doesn't matter who stole it.

Everyone knows war is Hell, it's a dirty nasty business, and the wrong people die all too often. But it was wrong to steal that image and misuse it to further that point. Just as it is wrong to ignore the truth, and to bias the "news" about those soldiers because you "hate the war" (or because you hate Bush), doing untold harm to those men and women just to further "the cause". And no one who REALLY cares about those men and women who are there doing a tough and dangerous job would intentionally dishonor them in that manner. Lying, cheating, and stealing is wrong, and so is doing it in order to dishonor and discredit those soldiers.
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« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2006, 06:24:26 AM »
Quelle horreur !

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« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2006, 07:05:48 AM »
Like some UK tabloïds, there are in France publishers which make profit with 'news'papers i wouldn't dare to wipe my butt with. (This is not a jab aimed at France as those disgusting pieces of writing sell pretty well in Belgium too).

This is the lowest of the low form of press. How could you expect anything else from them?


This being said, I don't give a damn if the picture of a dying child is misused. After all is said and done, copyright violation is nothing compared to a loss of life.

Michael Yon has said his point, he should let it go now. Disputing the copyright of such a tragic picture could only give the impression that he's after the money.
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« Reply #21 on: June 14, 2006, 07:55:03 AM »
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Like some UK tabloïds, there are in France publishers which make profit with 'news'papers i wouldn't dare to wipe my butt with. (This is not a jab aimed at France as those disgusting pieces of writing sell pretty well in Belgium too).

This is the lowest of the low form of press. How could you expect anything else from them?


This being said, I don't give a damn if the picture of a dying child is misused. After all is said and done, copyright violation is nothing compared to a loss of life.

Michael Yon has said his point, he should let it go now. Disputing the copyright of such a tragic picture could only give the impression that he's after the money.


In a way, I sort of agree. However, he's not asking for money. He asked for them to do something to make it right, they agreed, then they renegged. At some point, people like that MUST be held responsible for their actions. And he has plenty more pictures, in order to protect himself and the pictures, he has to stand up. If you don't vigorously protect your copyrights and trademarks, at least here in the States anyway, you lose the right to.

Crap sells well everywhere. P.T. Barnum once said "no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public" but he could have said it about any one else just as well. I'm not mad because their French. I couldn't care less who they are. It isn't about who they are, it is about what they've done.
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