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Bad Climber

Trad climber

The Lawless Border Regions

Apr 15, 2019 - 01:30pm PT

Done. This place is gonna be a lot less interesting. Oh, well. That's a bitch about some of the TR's, though. What the hell?

BAd

August West

Trad climber

Where the wind blows strange

Apr 15, 2019 - 01:30pm PT

Can you take 5 minutes of your time to explain why our privately owned photos
posted to non-political threads have been massively purged from your site?

Because corporations are winning the battle for the Internet.

If you think it is bad now, just wait for all the censorship that is in the pipeline because Google and Facebook get tired of paying the Europeans multi billion fines.

And don't think that censorship is going to stop at the EU border.

ionlyski

Trad climber

Polebridge, Montana

Apr 15, 2019 - 01:33pm PT

Why won’t he come back on here and talk to us a little? Same goes for the other thread which raises just as many unanswered questions.

Those of you who know him why don’t you ask him to take a few minutes and dialog with us on these two ? Harrison? C Mac has never intereacted even a little tiny bit. C’mon back CMac you got yer ears on?

phylp

Trad climber

Upland, CA

Apr 15, 2019 - 01:48pm PT

Hey Chris, Will do this review of my photos as soon as there is some time...

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Apr 15, 2019 - 02:00pm PT

I’m sure I’ll be corrected but it seems a short-sighted, if not self-defeating, strategy in that traffic determines the site’s ad revenue. I aver that such outweighs guidebook sales by a longshot. Maybe CMac figures he’ll just ride off into the internet sunset in a dust trail of declining ad revenue rather than incur legal costs?

jogill

climber

Colorado

Apr 15, 2019 - 02:01pm PT

Steve and others (including me) interested in the history of climbing could be in a pickle. Especially when posting old photos from books. Here is a little clarity:

"The law on copyright duration has been amended many times and determining whether an older book is still protected by copyright is more difficult. However, any book published prior to 1923 is currently in the public domain. Works published prior to Mar. 1, 1989, without any notice of copyright are also in the public domain, because the law required notice on all works published before that date."

Photos in books:

"Published from 1923 – 1963: . . . now extended by 20 years for a total renewal of 67 years. If not so renewed, now in public domain."

Avery

climber

New Zealand

Apr 15, 2019 - 03:27pm PT

DO YOU HAVE TO DELETE PHOTOS YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST?

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber

Pomfert VT

Apr 15, 2019 - 03:28pm PT

went through all my over 2k photos. deleted a half dozen that were borrowed from friends and 2 shamelessly stolen photos. I have a half dozen or so pictures of the covers of old climbing books but they are not close enough to be reproductions of the actual photo. they are photos that I took with a book in the photo.

DonC

climber

Bishop and Redlands

Apr 15, 2019 - 04:27pm PT

as noted, the SuperTopo Facebook page reposts many SuperTopo forum threads that clearly have pictures from other than the posting author. So SuperTopo is leveraging a lot of content from others that does not meets its own criteria in order to get clicks...

Lorenzo

Trad climber

Portland Oregon

Apr 15, 2019 - 04:45pm PT

Does this mean the duck has to take his picture down?

Lorenzo

Trad climber

Portland Oregon

Apr 15, 2019 - 04:47pm PT

Looks like some of CMack’s pictures in his album are copyrighted material.

johntp

Trad climber

Punter

Apr 15, 2019 - 04:50pm PT

Before you start an uprising, realize the implication. The hosts of the forum don't owe us anything. Antagonizing them will have no good outcome.

WyoRockMan

climber

Grizzlyville, WY

Apr 15, 2019 - 04:52pm PT

the Bulgemelon thread will not be harmed

RIP Bulgemelon.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Apr 15, 2019 - 04:53pm PT

The hosts of the forum don't owe us anything.

They don’t owe us anything? Who generates the site traffic that is their bread and butter
from those gay cruise ads?

ron gomez

Trad climber

Apr 15, 2019 - 05:11pm PT

Supertopo, really does not owe us anything. I would LOVE to see what happened if they just shut it down for a day.....watch the epic unfold. We don’t pay a single penny to post pretty much whatever we want and apparently the crew that runs this place has decided enough is enough. Sponsors pay for this site...plain and simple. If Supertopo is under any pressure to make changes....so be it. Start a pay climbing vent site, see how far you get. I belong to other sites that have strict rules about posts and if you violate, they delete. No one is complaining on those sites......BECAUSE YOU AGREE TO TERMS OF USE!
I do hope all gets worked out and this place can be a social climbing web site with “relevant material”, I stay in touch with many friends here, I get good information on climbing related material, it allows us to keep tabs with climbing related material and all that encompasses.
Peace