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Originally posted by Interlude
Celeb content is not "stolen," the copyright owners don't give a fuck and never have. Celeb sites are being strongarmed by baseless legal threats, and mark my words it's not going to stop there. It's only a matter of time before the religious fundies discover that they can get "obscene" sites shut down by threatening billing processors, and I don't mean fucking beastiality.
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That SOME (not all) celeb photo owners don't care is not the point. The point is, it's property, and if they don't care, then you can get PERMISSION (ever heard of that?).
Maybe you don't think your neighbor would mind lending you his lawnmowever, but do you go over and take it out of his garage and use it without going up and asking, "Hey, Joe, can I borrow your lawnmower?" No, you do it because it's the way things are done.
What content producers and artists are always fighting is the idea that their output is not property. Well, here's the news: it IS.