Post #443549 by Tom Slick on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 12:16 AM

On 2009-03-29 18:00, TIKI-TONGA wrote:
Information must flow freely both in the real world and here on TC.

Yes TIKI-TONGA, I agree information should be exchanged freely, but someones personally owned images should not. And by digging up and bringing back that old thread makes it seem that you condone or encourage making your own bootleg. Especially when you posted the wallpaper image first, and then after, the link to the copied print from tikiracers collection... It's pretty obvious that the only person who had the access to supply the jpg image of the artwork was TC'er thegreenman, in the first place. The original owner of the art.

When I read your two posts with the links, i seen it like this: "Fugg it, take the .jpg scan and doit yourself, tikiracer did..."

Whether or not you meant it like that, only you would know. But that's how it looks in my eyes, and I'm pretty sure that is how the owner took it too, based on his very last reply under that link you reposted:

thegreenman wrote:
"Okay that saves me a lot of trouble. Nothing wrong with that picture at all. Looks great. I'll just take a few nice digital pictures of it, post them and you all can do what you want with them."

On 2009-03-29 18:00, TIKI-TONGA wrote:
My link to tikicar's post very much pertained to the discussion on this thread, and I have no regrets about posting it.

TIKI-TONGA, I don't want, or expect you to regret what you have posted. I would only ask that you think clearly about what you are about to post in the future, because just as in life, there are repercussions to your actions. In this case, a few interested people including yourself, loses the possibility of owning a professionally done reprint of this art piece.

[ Edited by: Tom Slick 2009-03-30 00:21 ]