In this particular case it's specific resentment. I don't like it when people create websites that do nothing more than present content they've taken from other sites without permission in return for ad revenue.
That may be true, but the site owner certainly tried to make money from it - https://web.archive.org/web/20171225065956/http://afflante.c... - Note the Donate button and sidebar advert. This is from 6 weeks ago.
Do you resent Pinterest and Tumblr then as well?
Yes, although less so. Those sites at least have a valid use case as personal curation tools.
A thousand foxholes with legal snipers each out to get one another.
All that, so one grumpy webdesigner can live from glueing together some 2nd tier stockfootage.
I licensend all my content under the GPL and similar Licenses.
I wish there was a way to seperate that hell of a internet you want to live in from the web i work to archieve every day.
I work hard on my hobby, but i do not feel entitled too money for it.
It's not that simple. What is just a hobby for you might be a source of income for someone else. You can't turn tables around and say they can't make money only because you don't expect a payment for your hobby.
I wish there was some way to mark such hostile silo-parts of the web against the allmende, original web.
Before using an image for anything, I always check its license. It's so easy nowadays! Filtering by license is now part of Google Image search, so you don't even have to visit specialized sites like in the old days. Everything someone created is copyrighted and you can't just use it as you want, unless the creator allows you to - and many people do. It's so simple. They should teach these things early at school so we wouldn't have problems like the owner of the website in question.
GPL requires copyright law to work. Without vigorous copyright law the GPL is worthless.
If you don't believe in copyright you should pick a different licence.
You may not send radiowaves. You may not distill your own alcohol, you may not do this, you may not do that. Let the professionals handle it. This is where some self-important case like the Taxi-drivers starts to enshrine a often trivial task to demand entry dutys and guild taxes.
I want you to clearly sign your content - so that is unreusable and nobody gets put out in the court to statuate a exemple, so that a useless caste of professinal may life from the fear of the comoners.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171225065956/http://afflante.c...