German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View 327
crf00 writes with this report excerpted from Blogoscoped: "'Spiegel reports that German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take snapshots of all those (German) buildings which people asked Google Street View to remove. He then wants to add those photos to Picasa, including GPS coordinates, and in turn re-connect them with Google Maps. Jens believes that for the internet 'we must apply the same rules as we do in the real world. Our right to take panoramic snapshots, for instance, or to take photographs in public spaces, both base laws which determine that one may photograph those things that are visible from public streets and places.' Jens says that for his belief in the right of photographing in public places, as last resort he's even willing to go to jail. Spiegel says Jens already found over 200 people who want to help out in this project and look for removed locations in Google Street View, as there's no official list of such places published by Google."
Had to read the subject twice. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Erm... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd rather have a stalker that hangs out on Google Earth than standing in the bushes.
Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)
Stiltwalkers of the world disagree.
I support a citizen's right to shoot. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Never tried to shoot at the Pentagon, apparentl (Score:1, Funny)
pics or it didn't happen
Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)
Well I was skeptical, but then you extorted me to think of the vagina-creatures. I still didn't quite buy in - I was willing to let them all suffer until you tied it to my jealousy by making me think of the ones I own, like my wife and daughter, sister, mom, etc... nobody should see a vagina of mine! Fury! I now wholeheartedly support your plan to censor the net to stop any images. And here I was just going to get them curtains. /sarcasm
If weirdos like you were busy 24/7 watching boobies you wouldn't be agitating for useless laws. Seems like a win.
Your website would also be a good reference to check how good your curtains were. Just set an alarm on skin at your house and you'll be warned if you need to get better curtains. Without this you'd have to stalk around outside at night trying to judge this.