1) I never said that I only think it's wrong to send nastygrams like that because because he was my friend; not being one who has ever received a threatening email from Getty (or being someone who would give them any reason to) I didn't know they did this. If I'd found it out some other way, I'd still think they're fucks. But hey, don't pretend that shit doesn't hit you harder when it hits closer to home, not until you're spending as much money feeding a family in the third world as you are spending to feed your kids.

2) If you think copyright infringement is in the same category as drink-driving, then your values are not mine and you gain nothing from arguing with me.

3) If you want to talk about stealing, then let's talk about the many, many public domain photographs over which Getty falsely claim a copyright, without so much as attributing the original photographer (and I wonder how people using *those* images have been sent a nastygram by Getty, don't you?). That makes them either fuckheads, or incompetent hypocrites.

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