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Powergamz1 -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/5/2013 10:21:06 PM)
It serves as a good warning that the person posting it is given to making impotent threats, and should never be taken seriously in any real life matters. It is right up there with 'Everything we do is illegal'. quote: ORIGINAL: TheBoyDownBelow quote: ORIGINAL: DarkSteven 1. It is effortless to get pics of porn stars online. With those available, no scammer in his/her right mind will steal my pics. 2. If a profile is properly written, it will be so specific that stealing it would be ridiculous. 3. Proving actual damages by theft of pictures or writing will be impossible. 4. Most scammers are operating illegal games of obtaining money through fraudulent misrepresentation. Copyright issues are the least of their worries. 5. Most scammers if not all, are operating outside the US. Good luck subpoenaing someone from Nigeria to appear in a US court. OK, so it is an apparent paranoid copy and paste. On the other hand, I saw excellent written profiles copied within the CM community, by real and scammers alike. So a copyright message may not hurt. But in the greater world of things, the above warning message seems to be just a bit ridiculous.

tj444 -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/5/2013 11:13:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DarkSteven If anyone posts the warning, I think much less of them. ^^ this^^ People that post that (which they likely saw on someone else's profile) are almost like people that resend chain letters or emails they got of some warning which they forward to everyone.. If a scammer wants to make their scam more realistic and believeable they might use pics of someone that is attractive but doesnt look like a model.. imo..

Missokyst -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/6/2013 10:21:22 AM)
This... It is a legend that people blindly follow like the little lemmings they are. If I see it in someones profile I know they are not likely to be someone I would enjoy chatting up. Just as I don't chat up people if I see their profiles list them as belonging "to the house of.." phht. Pass. quote: ORIGINAL: CarpeComa The legend has probably survived so long because it plays into peoples' narcissism; that their otherwise two line profile is the least bit interesting or important to someone ‘official’ (usually the ‘warning’ is longer than the profile it is ‘protecting’.). It’s been around long enough that people have created parodies of the warning. These parodies usually either encourage usage, charge a fee, or have some outlandish requirement. When I see someone using the warning my first thought is that the person is either an idiot or naive and probably not worth talking to. I haven’t been wrong in this impression yet. As for protecting your journals, this is largely silly. Unless you are a published author or you are actively trying to become such, I wouldn’t even waste time with it.

xLaChienne -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/6/2013 10:40:26 AM)
It was a social experiment that started in Adult Match Maker in the early 2000's. It was to see how many people were gullible enough to copy the disclaimer to their own profiles. Like any Internet Virus or Meme, it quickly spread to Adult Friend Finder and many other sites. Sydney University has no interest in kink profiles or photos. There is no research being done. However, to prove social manipulation, Google searches are done to consolidate the number of kink folks that paste the disclaimer on their profile. Many profiles are indexed by search sites.

theRose4U -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/6/2013 12:11:23 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Muttling Snopes is your friend..... http://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/privacy.asp Funnieat is this week article came out that snopes "the definitive true false of the internet" is a guy & his wife in their basement using google. Apparently no PI experience or cridentials, they just google & spotfly stuff then put their own decisions up as fact. Talk about narcissism!!

kalikshama -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/6/2013 4:48:49 PM)
A lawyer friend of mine says: "You put yourself and your pictures on a publicly accessible website, and thereby lose any expectation of privacy. So it's not a privacy issue. And in terms of any claim re misappropriation of your likeness, that's a very hard claim to prove unless (1) you're a famous or otherwise noteworthy person and (2) someone is using your likeness "in commerce." Meaning all that bullshit about "legal ramifications" is... well.. bullshit. The more you know."

CarpeComa -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/6/2013 8:53:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: theRose4U s this week article came out that snopes "the definitive true false of the internet" is a guy & his wife in their basement using google. Apparently no PI experience or cridentials, they just google & spotfly stuff then put their own decisions up as fact. Talk about narcissism!! It's not arrogance when one is correct. Besides, that information has been known for quite a while. This was from XKCD in 2007; [image]local://upfiles/1000664/4BF8C6174830442D8EAC6EB906989D15.jpg[/image]

TheBoyDownBelow -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/7/2013 12:07:11 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: xLaChienne It was a social experiment that started in Adult Match Maker in the early 2000's. It was to see how many people were gullible enough to copy the disclaimer to their own profiles. Like any Internet Virus or Meme, it quickly spread to Adult Friend Finder and many other sites. Sydney University has no interest in kink profiles or photos. There is no research being done. Thank you xLaChienne! This is so far the best answer. Exactly what I was looking for, and I accept it as the universal truth. [8\|]

Moonhead -> RE: Warning: Any persons or institutions... (1/7/2013 5:36:06 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: CarpeComa As for protecting your journals, this is largely silly. Unless you are a published author or you are actively trying to become such, I wouldn’t even waste time with it. Even assuming that any published author would view their journal on a fetish dating website as analogous to work they hope to get paid for in the first place. I'd go so far as to suggest that anybody stupid enough to think that is probably unlikely to get anything published. Blogs are there for advertising, rather than journals on smut sites where you don't use your real (or pen) name... Come to that, is the content of a profile or journal on here even legally the poster's intellectual property? A lot of sites put a "what goes on the site stays on the site" line in their TOS. It's quite possible that anything you post on CM isn't your property once it goes up here, and all of this dick waggling about IP is even more absurd than it looks.

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