QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Sun 12th July 2009, 8:01pm)
QUOTE(Floydsvoid @ Sun 12th July 2009, 7:47pm)
Poking around on
http://www.npg.org.uk/ I've yet to find the hi-res pictures or the TOS. I'll keep looking.
I have a feeling they're taken from
this CD-ROM, not from the website. (If the hi-res images were online, there'd be no need for them to sell the CD, after all.)
Which gets back to the DVD copy protection issue - and it is a criminal offence in the US, as well as the EU, even to provide instructions on how to circumvent copy protection devices. (Doesn't mean I am in agreement with this draconian approach, but it is not enough for the freedophile to simply say "I don't like it therefore the law does not apply to me).
Wikipedia are in an extremely immoral position. They have taken pictures where they clearly know that they have been obtained by an illegal method from a product in breach of its licensing conditions, yet they are quite happy to be the recipients.
The daft thing is that you can quite happily get images of the pictures in question from their web site. I think the fact that they are very high resolution images of quality would make a significant difference in court. This is not about setting information free, it is about stealing other people's work.
I shudder to think that this bunch of miscreants with no moral compass are seeking to take charge of our cultural heritage.