Re:Penalities for Violations? (Score 1)

Yeah, I think you're right. This case doesn't make it a CRIME to post these images ... just that, if you do, you can be civilly liable. Someone can sue you. And if they do, they are likely to get two kinds of relief: - they could make you remove the images - they would get damages. Damages would be the amount that they were harmed by your posting of their images. Say they sell images, they would have to prove to the court how many sales they lost because the images were publicly available on your site. Seems pretty ridiculous to me. I think anyone trying to sue would have a really hard time proving damages. But beyond the legal question is the moral question. Should images and art NOT be available publicly on the internet? Isn't this something we, as a society, should be promoting, not cracking down on? Free art. Enrich people's lives. Et cetera.