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Someone has written a program script designed to comb the comic archives on the Keen hosting systems and download all the comic images.
Now, this might or might not be a violation of copyright. If the person grabbing the images doesn't redistribute them or in some other way deprive the artist of their income.
And that is the rub, of course. If an artist is making money from the number of ad views on their strip, this program could be a violation of copyright.
But that isn't really the big issue. The big issue is that this freely distributed script takes a huge bandwidth toll. It costs the artists a lot of money every month to pay for the extra bandwidth.
Isn't that special. People suck. :)
Now, this might or might not be a violation of copyright. If the person grabbing the images doesn't redistribute them or in some other way deprive the artist of their income.
And that is the rub, of course. If an artist is making money from the number of ad views on their strip, this program could be a violation of copyright.
But that isn't really the big issue. The big issue is that this freely distributed script takes a huge bandwidth toll. It costs the artists a lot of money every month to pay for the extra bandwidth.
Isn't that special. People suck. :)