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An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by compiler-guy »

enriquto wrote: post #95
monkey_monkey wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one is saying it's not legal. Most people here understand what libel is and what freedom of expression is. The point is that it's still a bit weird, creepy and unpleasant. This man can continue doing it, and I can continue thinking he's quite damaged.

> The point is that it's still a bit weird, creepy and unpleasant. This man can continue doing it, and I can continue thinking he's quite damaged. That's alright. I'm pretty much indifferent to the whole thing, but I still enjoyed the interview. Notice that the man may be "quite damaged", but still the first thing that he does is ask the interviewer if she was offended by her public photos being there, and offering t…

He didn’t offer to delete them. He offered “not to do it again.” Which means she is stuck.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by fxtentacle »

camillomiller wrote: post #38
yosito wrote: post #33

TIL there's a wiki website for foot fetishists. I believe everyone has a right to their own fetishes. Nothing wrong with being into feet. But the thing that really puts me off about this interview and the WikiFeet website is the lack of consent. Uploading photos of someone without their consent is wrong. The fact that the purpose is to satisfy a fetish adds an extra layer of creepy. Regardless of how the interviewer…

I do not agree. These are photos posted publicly on Instagram or Facebook. Anyone could see them. This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. And no, the fact that someone uploads them to a service whose ToS they have accepted makes no difference. You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them. If those pics were behind e…

The law is quite clear on this. You're granting Instagram a license to display the image, so they are allowed to do that. Other websites aren't, unless you grant them a license, too.

So the foot fetish website is infringing copyright. And the author of the image can sue them for damages.

They can also ask ISPs to blacklist the page if they don't comply.

Kind of all the stuff that the MPAA does when they find a movie rip on someone's server, the photographer could do here, too.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by monsieurbanana »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #100
ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them. To see them where I posted them . Pictures are an intellectual property of the author, if a person wants other people to spread them, he/she needs to explicitly set the allowing license. Copyright, fair use and such is a hot and nuanced topic, but the bottom line here is that personal pictures getting shared is not wha…

well these are tears of the RIAA and MPAA aren't they? Its not like we solved those problems beyond DMCA takedowns, a legal hammer that was ineffective at scale or new services that made copyright infringement the worser product. We exist in the age of information and the age of mash ups, there is nothing _technically_ stopping these people from doing this so to do so we need to _create_ something to do this. Otherwi…

On this website, downvotes for disagreement are allowed. Take a deep breath, downvotes don't hurt.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by boudin »

fxtentacle wrote: post #113
camillomiller wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not agree. These are photos posted publicly on Instagram or Facebook. Anyone could see them. This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. And no, the fact that someone uploads them to a service whose ToS they have accepted makes no difference. You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them. If those pics were behind e…

The law is quite clear on this. You're granting Instagram a license to display the image, so they are allowed to do that. Other websites aren't, unless you grant them a license, too. So the foot fetish website is infringing copyright. And the author of the image can sue them for damages. They can also ask ISPs to blacklist the page if they don't comply. Kind of all the stuff that the MPAA does when they find a movie…

What you say is right, but is about copyright, not consent. No social media collect the consent of people in the actual pictures when the person in the picture is not the one who is posting it.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by kthartic »

salex89 wrote: post #10

Haha, not what I expected to find on HN this morning, but I'm glad I did. Some human quirks are fun. Maybe because this guy doesn't look intimidating.

Where did you see a photo of this guy? I can’t seem to see it in the article

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by yosito »

fergie wrote: post #109
yosito wrote: post #33

TIL there's a wiki website for foot fetishists. I believe everyone has a right to their own fetishes. Nothing wrong with being into feet. But the thing that really puts me off about this interview and the WikiFeet website is the lack of consent. Uploading photos of someone without their consent is wrong. The fact that the purpose is to satisfy a fetish adds an extra layer of creepy. Regardless of how the interviewer…

In my younger days I would probably have agreed with you OP. Now that I am older, I have come to appreciate the time, ambition, energy and reward that goes into being a public figure. I am also a bit wiser to the whole game of getting attention whilst pretending that you are not looking for it. I feel like the best way to deal with this situation is just to accept that its all OK. Its OK to be an young, rich, attract…

I'm not talking about public figures.

> I feel like the best way to deal with this situation is just to accept that its all OK.

It's not all ok. It's ok to be into feet. It's ok to be any age, race, class. It's ok to publish anything you want about yourself in any way you choose. I'm not judging or shaming any of those things.

What's NOT ok is using/sharing someone's photos without their consent. In legal terms, it's likely a violation of copyright laws. In terms of morality/decency, it's a violation of respect for another person's boundaries.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by suifbwish »

reedf1 wrote: post #23
iso1631 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are peeping toms hurting people?

Voyeurism is illegal in most places, are you saying that is what this is?

If you base what is right and wrong of what is illegal you make the perfect model citizen for any dictatorship. Have fun with that.
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