The Geekothon: The Nerve of Some People!

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

The Nerve of Some People!

Been doing the usual search and found this:

A blogger went to the MassKara festival in Bacolod at his own expense just to cover the festivities. Long story short he posted his shots on his blog which eventually found its way on the festival's official site (here):

Complete article after the break

Naturally he was pissed off and contacted the site administrators, then he found out someone leeched his picture. The guy who nicked his pic was named Chris Rios. He emailed the Mr Rios but the guy claimed the picture as his and stated that they might took the same scene at the same angle(it was an action shot).

As for the MassKara festival website they pulled the picture out of the home screen:

I have seen the original image and the "disputed image"(via flickr) and I am no expert but at first glance you can already see that the water mark was cut off and the image cropped. Case in point, I personally think that asking permission or crediting someone won't hurt you a bit.
In fairness to Mr Rios, I hope he does defend his side and shed light on this problem.

Original Post(via byahilo)

Labels: internet, personal, social responsibility