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Offline Otto Puzzell

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An Observation and a Question
« on: October 23, 2016, 06:44:50 AM »
Interesting phenomenon on the internet – especially as it relates to cars.

Quite a few websites editors / owners pull pictures of rare, old or unique automobiles from other websites, or from copyrighted print materials, and then post them on their own websites, after slapping a watermark on them.

Is this to prevent somebody else from doing what they did? 
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Re: An Observation and a Question
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2016, 12:34:55 PM »
They might just be too stupid to know why watermarks are applied!
Maybe they just think it advertises their site...
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Re: An Observation and a Question
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2016, 12:57:19 PM »
It's about name promotion and awareness, IMHO. And it works.
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