I sometimes show my ignorance by misunderstanding the subject matter of a thread. Excuse me if I'm doing just that here but here is my interpretation of what I think is being discussed.
The OP reminds me of a site I came across once where I saw many thousands of posts about tech related material where all of the posts were copy/pasted from other sites. There were only one or two people making those posts. I sometimes think that it would be good if it were possible to have some kind of internet policing to stop people from doing that. Sadly, I know that will probably never happen.
The last post made by John reminds me of a site where I have been actively involved since its inception. The site owner has disabled the users ability to view "who is online" and also to be able to see who is viewing a particular thread. I just think this is crazy and yes, I think, a little bit paranoid.
Another thing that really irritates me are the people that tick that box that says, "hide my online status this session". I won't speculate as to why I think these people do that for risk of offending them but hey, if you just posted on the forum a couple of minutes ago, of course I know you are logged on. I'd be interested to hear anyone's reasoning for this practice as I know there are one or two people here who do that, if not here, on other forum sites.
Going back to the OP, I must admit that I have never understood the need for copyright in certain situations. For instance, if I write an article for a site, I might make a screenshot to illustrate my point. It maybe took me all of 5 minutes to create the screenshot so its not really a big deal and why would it be wrong for someone to copy it? I just don't get it.
