Public excuses from 1000bit.net webmaster

There is something I don't understand. How can you have a policy that "all the material present on the site is absolutely freely usable" if the site includes material your users didn't give permission to share? If I were to post information or photos on your site, I would assume it's only for that purpose. It is unethical to open-source things that you don't own. That is stealing. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tiziano Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:27 AM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Public excuses from 1000bit.net webmaster Hi to everybody, I am the webmaster of 1000bit.net site, I am here to answer about the pictures problem you are talking about. First of all, I would like to tell you something about me. I am involved in this hobby since the beginning, every computer I bought is still with me. I am one of the organizer of vintage computer events in Italy, last year we setup the first Vintage Computer Festival in Italy, thanks to Sellam. My site is online since 1998, under different urls, and this is really a long time in internet era. In all this time many things are changed and my policy about the use of the pictures is changed too. On my site there are a lot of my own pictures, a lot of users pictures, a lot of pictures taken As you can see on my site there isn't any "copyright notice" or "picture policy", so all the material present on the site is absolutley freely usable and downloadable from anyone, beacuse is intended right in this way. In the last years I have choosed to keep track and so to give credits to any pictures that i found on the net, but the older ones actually doesn't have any kind of credits or references. In all these years no one asked me to remove pictures or something else. Finally, please don't get angry if you want that I remove "your" picture, just drop me an email or better I can give you the credits to you or your site without any kind of problems. My english is worse than "little rough" (thanks Dwight :-))), but I hope my intent is clear. Tix www.1000bit.net