Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter 164
snitty writes "Wil Shipley, developer of Delicious Library, found some applications on the iTunes App Store that were using without permission some images from his popular desktop application. He outed them on Twitter. The team at Technically Legal broke down the story and the take-home messages for using other people's images."
Slashbot response (Score:3, Funny)
Take down notice: BAD
Software developer: GOOD
Copyrights: BAD
Twitter: GOOD
Lawsuit: BAD
Caught red-handed: GOOD
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Re:Twitter (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah. the twitter angle was pretty much gratuitous. I think it's become the Web2.0 way of making something cool: wedge "on Twitter" on the end of the sentence. Just like "in my pants" automatically makes any sentence hilarious.
"Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers In My Pants"
Yup. Hilarious.
Let's be fair (Score:1, Funny)
It's not a wood grain texture, it's a faux wood grain texture of the type you might find printed on cheap, tacky veneer. Presumably, shipping a version of this software with a bitmapped texture that approximates real wood would cost more. So how much wood would a woodchuck chuck to simply store metadata in the filesystem? Just think of how many virtual trees (oil in the veneer case) we'd be saving when nobody needs such silly apps.