It's not about removing your attachment and making money. It's about control of that ownership. So as really hypothetical example, I draw a portrait of my girlfriend and I post it TG. It goes into the public domain, i.e. it's on the internet. Everybody makes comments about my art work - yeah nice - I like that. etc. etc. And say at a certain point my girlfriend turns around and says, "Hey that picture you put on the internet of my I found and I don't like it up there it makes me look fat." So I say, "Sorry sorry sorry, I'll take it down." Because I've put it up there I should be able to take it down. At the moment the situation is that I have to go through hoops to do that. Because it would make the post look helplessly wrong without the image. I should be able take off as easily as I put it up there. I know this harms the content of TG BUT the important thing is it's still my decision not someone else's. I own that image to do what I want with it. That's my right.
TG at the moment is saying to its members - that right is waved if you post something because it has to be this way, if you don't want to play by our rules then don't post (with I very really do any more). With all the things going on with places like Facebook and privacy issues - this leaves a bad taste in people's mouths.
And that's more the issue than having images stolen by unscrupulous people.
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