Scott Loveless wrote: >On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Bran Everseeking ><[email protected]> wrote: >> A friend twittered this and I found the facebook part to be true at >> least. >> >> http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/11/warning-facebook-and-myspace-strip-photo-copyright-data.html > >Using Facespace and Mybook for photo hosting is silly. People >uploading anything more serious than snapshots of their drunk friends >drinking drinks really need to find somewhere else to host their >photos. Picasa and Flickr are free, easier to use, and allow the >photographer to specify copyright. I'm not making excuses for the >abysmal behavior of Tom Anderson and Mark Zuckerberg, but calling >oneself a photographer and then telling all their friends to check out >their slammin' pics yo! on Facebook is, well, dumb.
Quite right. And however much I suspect the motives of anything Facebook does, I'm pretty confident the stripping of metadata is mainly to conserve storage space and bandwidth (the same reason Photoshop's "Save for Web" module strips metadata). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
