[thelist] More Smart Tags

[Canfield, Joel]

Aren't we just retrying Napster here? [or handguns or alcohol or whatever
your personal Satan is]

The tool isn't evil because it's used for bad purposes. The tool creator
isn't evil because it's possible to use the tool for bad purposes. 

aardvark, isaac, and others have made the point - this isn't about
Microsoft, it's about the web, and they're not the same thing. Yet. If Smart
Tags and the Image Toolbar bring the intellectual property use of the web to
its knees, Bill Gates is even more powerful than he thinks. If not (I'm
voting the web will survive MS one more time) we should figure out how our
potential clients are going to want us to manage these new 'tools.'

joel at spinhead.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Crockford [mailto:tonyc at boldfish.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:36 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] More Smart Tags


> Hasn't this (saving pictures) been around for quite a while?
> I mean, saving
> pictures off of web pages isn't the easiest thing to do, but
> I've been doing it
> for quite a while.  Again, I just got out of Windows for the
> last time, so I
> don't have to worry about these types of "features".  Who
> would guess that
> Microsoft would be getting credit that lowers the needed IQ
> of web surfers even
> more?
>

Yeah, we've all grabbed pictures.

My issue of concern is that Microsoft are making it easy and acceptable
, even encouraging the user to take pictures from my site and
redistribute them.

How quick will MS be to come after me if I have their site graphics on
my site I wonder?