Yet another LJ-war...

[kseenaa]

And I am a bit thorn... Surfed over my flist and found a warning in darker_spike about a community stealing icons, or so it said in the post. I got curious and surfed over. And geez all hell.... *sigh* Flame-war anyone? Oh and drama to? Not to mention it has spread over my f-list like wild-fire. And my problem is that I agree with both sides. Since what the owner of the community does is, he has written a program that uses the public picture feed that LiveJournal has. Meaning, all your pictures on your LJ can be found very easily with a simple search, with no way of knowing who made it. Meaning, no credit to you. When it comes to icons and such, well... The images used to do them are probably copyrighted already to someone else, but still... It gives a bad taste, even if it is not breaking any rules. But to those that actually have copyrighted stuff on there LJ (I am looking at you now, croaky,anla and silvestris) there is a simple way of stopping your pictures from showing in the public picture feed. I have done it, and I don't even have anything on here that is copyrighted to me.

If you don't want your public images and your public posts to show up in latest.bml, latest-rss.bml, and latest-img.bml, go to http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/ and enter:

set latest_optout yes

then click the "Execute" button. If you want to change this later, it's simply:

set latest_optout no

To tell LJ what you think of the feed 'features' visit http://www.livejournal.com/feedback/

(Thanx genkitty for letting me know how to do it.)

This war is so silly, it is not even funny. One side says they are right, and the other side says they are right. Not to mention all the name calling being thrown all over the place. Me? Well, I just don't care about it, since it is such a huge grey-area. And yes, it is the icon-makers and manip-makers that are screaming the loudest. The once who's work are in the deepest of grey-areas. Yes, I always credit if I can find the person that has done the icon or a manip, since I think it is a nice thing to do. But those who don't are no villians. Really. *sigh*

Time to go kill dragons in WoW I think...

Edit: As always the all wonderful, and nifty wonder that is japeweird has done a much better post about the matter, stating what to do, why the LJ-war, and.... Lots more information. I so love this woman. Here is her post about the matter:
Japeweird on the matter of bandwidth, icon-stealing and the like...
I HIGHLY recommend you reading her post if you are worried about the matter.