Google Removes Ability To View Images, Now Requires You To Save Them To Your Account.

[DoctorWho1975]

How will the know the difference between something someone uploaded off a camera phone and a copyrighted image?

[TacoSenpai]

Welp all the more reason to use DDG and Bing. 

[Satisfoxy]

The future 2050

Teacher: Why did it take you so long to create a PowerPoint?

Student: I had to get permission from companies so I could use their logos in my PowerPoint. I also had to get permission to use each individual word because words are copyrighted now.

Teacher: This is perfectly acceptable and I adore how our society has chosen to use ample amounts of time.

 

If photographers don't want their ultra high-res photos downloaded, they should have their site setup better to prevent Google from web-crawling it.

 

Better check my rights really quick, breathing might be copyrighted now and I need to pay Bilbo McMoneyBags before I can take a breath.

[Drak3]

2 hours ago, DoctorWho1975 said:

How will the know the difference between something someone uploaded off a camera phone and a copyrighted image?

Any image taken/created recently is copywritten. Technically, they could apply this to all images, but it'll probably just be for stock image companies.

[DoctorWho1975]

2 hours ago, Drak3 said:

Any image taken/created recently is copywritten. Technically, they could apply this to all images, but it'll probably just be for stock image companies.

That's the rub... will they go all out and say All ur images are belong to us? What if Getty says oh this image is ours but it actually is not?

[Drak3]

26 minutes ago, DoctorWho1975 said:

What if Getty says oh this image is ours but it actually is not?

Then Getty gets in legal trouble and pays fines.

 

27 minutes ago, DoctorWho1975 said:

That's the rub... will they go all out and say All ur images are belong to us?

If they do, there will be a mass exodus to the best search engine that provides images at full resolution available: Bing.

[DoctorWho1975]

Who is going to fine Getty? 

[Energycore]

Lest we forget, Getty Images is known for extorting people with their copyright claims, and in fact IIRC this one time they extorted a photographer about copyright on photos that she owned the rights for.

 

Couple links:

https://alj.orangenius.com/tips-responding-getty-images-demand-letter/

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150908/18123432199/getty-images-tries-to-copyright-troll-2600-magazine-over-content-it-has-no-copyright-over.shtml

 

Of course they would be participating in this kind of thing. I wonder if Google was paid money by them to implement this, since it makes copyright trolling so much easier to do on their side.

[Energycore]

46 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Then Getty gets in legal trouble and pays fines.

This has happened in the past and it has not apparently been enough to make them stop, so I don't foresee them stopping.

46 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

If they do, there will be a mass exodus to the best search engine that provides images at full resolution available: Bing.

Yeah I think that's where I'll be headed if this is rolled out in maximum strength.

[Drak3]

Just now, Energycore said:

This has happened in the past and it has not apparently been enough to make them stop, so I don't foresee them stopping.

They only have so much money.

 

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Yeah I think that's where I'll be headed if this is rolled out in maximum strength.

I've basically moved over completely to Bing. Only time I use Google is if Firefox resets search settings.

[2FA]

Doesn't happen to me in Firefox 58.

[Blademaster91]

Must be testing or a slow rollout to everyone? I don't see this in Firefox 58 either.

[dalekphalm]

Everyone knows Bing is better for porn anyway...

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, dalekphalm said:

Everyone knows Bing is better for porn anyway...

You mean asking Cortana to search for porn is better than just using Google myself? *mindblown* Assistants have a use after all. 

[dalekphalm]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

You mean asking Cortana to search for porn is better than just using Google myself? *mindblown* Assistants have a use after all. 

I mean... sure? I guess you could ask Cortana to do the search for you?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, dalekphalm said:

I mean... sure? I guess you could ask Cortana to do the search for you?

Well Cortana uses Bing as the default search engine so... actually correct that, Cortana basically just searches Bing for everything I say, even if it's "make a reminder". 

[moderategamer]

Most browsers you can simply drag the image and it will open up in a new window or just right click, view image whether or not you can still do that I don't know. I've been using edge for a while now and they don't have any way of opening an image in new window you have to save it.

[corsairian]

18 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Pro tip: you can right click on the image and click "view image" in the dropdown menu to view it normally.

 

A lot more hassle, but it does work. I just now googled "dogs", picked a random image, did that, and got this as a result: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SfLV8hD7zX4/maxresdefault.jpg

Shhh! We don't want this getting 'patched' 

[Princess Luna]

It works the same it has always did for me.

[RyanEsau]

Is this going to affect all images? I wouldn't mind the move for stuff that we *shouldn't* be obtaining direct hd images of (E.G Actual stuff meant to be protected like Depositphotos and what not) Also wouldn't mind if it forced me to goto the respective page for like deviantart creations, I think that'd be fair.

 

No effect so far though. Google Chrome / Am Signed In. Tried a few normal searches alongside a stock image search which is protected.

 

 

[Bensemus]

13 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Yup I noticed... I also noticed that Google remove search results it doesn't like.

Bing is getting more and more interesting.

However I will never say "Bing it". Sounds terrible.

 

[dalekphalm]

13 minutes ago, Bensemus said:

However I will never say "Bing it". Sounds terrible.

 

To be fair, before 1997, "google it" would have sounded retarded too.

[Guest]

Ill just use bing then problem solved.

[GoodBytes]

34 minutes ago, Bensemus said:

However I will never say "Bing it". Sounds terrible.

Well, if things continues with Google.. I think we will live with the terrible sounding "Bing it".

 

[yian88]

On 2/14/2018 at 2:39 PM, GoodBytes said:

Yup I noticed... I also noticed that Google remove search results it doesn't like.

Bing is getting more and more interesting.

Hey there microsoft employee, how are you today? doing your PR job as usual? ok.

 

Its called duckduckgo.