junkdewd wrote:Burn wrote:The more I think about it, the more I have to wonder if blaming the posting of the pics on forums and newsgroups is really to blame.
Let's be serious here, a good chunk of the internet girls are ripped and posted somewhere, and yet their sites continue to survive.
So, is it a case of no money, or perhaps Gab was simply uncomfortable doing the nude stuff (look at some of her pics, she looks uncomfortable at times) and simply decided to quit?
Her website has been updated to say she is a topless model now. The photog has simply seen the glory of nudity and the dollars it brings in. Its so simple to tage downloads on the fly and then cancel the sub for the people whose cpies of the pics end up on the net. Its done thousands of times a day, the tagging of the pictures that is. There is a hack for that, but thats another topic. The phtog is simply becoming greedy and the girsl are too old for his tastes anymore.
It's the never-ending battle between the Internet users who think the photog is "greedy" for wanting to be paid for his work, and the photog who thinks the Internet users are "thiefs" for sharing out his work on forums and the Usenet.
I really can't muster up a lot of hate for either side, and have been in both sets of shoes. As a photog I think a photog does deserve to get paid for at least SOME of the work he does, and the bitching gets a little deep about that at times; and also as a photog I think a photog should expect at least SOME of his work to get shared out for free on Forums and the Usenet in a hopefully limited fashion, which can actually be a good thing in generating buzz and interest and getting people to want more where that came from.
Fulls sets and especially full site dumps, I think are very bad form; but at the same time I think it's a waste of a web entrepreneur's time to try to chase down every stray photo that ends up anywhere out there to try to squeeze an extra buck or two out of it.
Bottom line, each camp should give the other some slack.