A recent post on StormTrack just blows my mind on how some chasers view things.
It never ceases to amaze me to see the very same people that will bitch and moan when someone steals their stuff, turn right around and slap some copyrighted music or graphics in their videos, both online and DVDs they are selling that they don’t have permission to use. Even worse is that they whine about it if they get caught doing it.
Seriously guys, you can’t have it both ways. If you think it’s ok to use that copyrighted music without explicit permission than you HAVE to also believe that it’s perfectly ok for CNN to grab your video and use it without your permission. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Sometimes I just want to find every chaser that does that, grab their videos online, make a compilation DVD of it and sell it. Should be ok with their line of thinking it’s ok to use copyrighted music without permission right?
No, of course it’s not ok, and if I were to do that I would be seriously chastised on StormTrack (but I could be welcomed back with open arms like nothing ever happened a few months later, right Billy?). For those that don’t know we’ve already had a couple of storm chasers grab another chasers photos, take off the copyright marks and post them on their own websites as their own. Then a few months later they were let back in the main community gathering place like nothing ever happened. One even went on to sell a lot of high dollar camera equipment. I for one was extremely disappointed in Tim allowing these thieves to remain in the community, especially since with one of them, it was my stuff he stole (among others). I might have been OK with it if he had cowboyed up and admitted it, but instead he decided to blame his kids. What kind of a douche bag blames his kids for something like that? Even if my kids did something like that, I would have taken the heat for it publicly and dealt with it in the family privately. Full of fail!
Even more ludicrous are the ones that have attempted to post from time to time about how to get some warez online. Are you kidding me? Maybe a lot of people share files, but posting on a forum full of a bunch of videographers and photographers about how to steal intellectual property isn’t the brightest move you ever made.
Pick a side of the road and stay on it folks. Either you’re for free sharing of intellectual property (it’s still illegal) or you’re not. You don’t get to have it both ways. Even if you try to have it both ways, you should keep it to yourself because you just look like an idiot when you do that publicly.
That’s my rant for the week. 😉
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