Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!alberta!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca!janus.mtroyal.ab.ca!ewilts From: ewilts@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (Ed Wilts) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Adult pics for DCTV... Message-ID: <1991Jun10.142810.8826@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca> Date: 10 Jun 91 20:28:10 GMT References: <1991Jun06.063543.13681@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: BC Systems Corporation, Victoria, B.C. Lines: 47 In article , bobl@graphics.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdm) writes: > cowgilc@prism.cs.orst.edu (Clayton Cowgill) writes: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Well, I just picked up my DCTV and it's pretty nice. I was kicking >> around the idea of converting a couple hundred meg of adult gifs to >> DCTV's 'display' file format. Being that there is a bit of processing >> (image cleanup mostly) involved on each picture (plus a new harddrive >> to store everything- ack! ;-) I was toying with the idea of making them >> available cheap in a PD Disk catalog. I'm thinking inexpensive for >> prices- (Maybe $1-$1.50 per disk? 5-6 images?). >> >> So... would anyone be interested in such a catalog? >> >> No flames on the content of this message, please. This isn't >> a commercial venture-- I just want to cover my costs and time and >> make the pics available some way other than the 'net. What is your definition of a commercial venture? When you start paying people for costs and tiem, that's commercialism. My employer pays me for my time. We pay developers for their time and costs to produce high quality software. > > Sorry but that's just what we *don't* need. Adult GIFs converted to > DCTV that were originally scanned from *copyrighted* magazines > running all over the net and for sale on disks. The biggest waste of > time and hardware IMHO. I just can't see why anyone would want to > even try this or waste any of their time doing this. Why not just > spend your time productively by actually producing *original* art on > the DCTV rather than converting copyrighted worthless images. > > If you want to produce something and sell it, why not produce > something useful like backgrounds, scenes, still-lifes and the like. > How about you go out and take some nice photographs of sunsets and > then digitize them into DCTV and sell them. > > -- Bob Agreed! Another commercial venture raping the profits from someone else's work shouldn't be supported. On the other hand, if he was to find subjects willing to pose for original works, that would be different. -- .../Ed Preferrred: Ed.Wilts@BSC.Galaxy.BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA Ed Wilts Alternate: EdWilts@BCSC02.BITNET (604) 389-3430 B.C. Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8