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RoGeorge:


Over the years, I used TinyPic to store pics that I used to embed in messages (as links) on various forums or other platforms.  Mostly technical photos without which many old post will become useless.

Any ideas how to save locally the own pics together with their TinyPic ID/link, so broken links could be eventually replaced with new links of the same pic saved elsewhere?

Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on August 20, 2019, 07:55:41 am ---Over the years, I used TinyPic to store pics that I used to embed in messages (as links) on various forums or other platforms.  Mostly technical photos without which many old post will become useless.

Any ideas how to save locally the own pics together with their TinyPic ID/link, so broken links could be eventually replaced with new links of the same pic saved elsewhere?

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It's another example why you don't want to use external services for images. Services going down has happened before and will invariably happen again in the future.

RoGeorge:
There were many reasons to do that:

- former elforum.ro (currently elforum.info, the Romanian equivalent of EEVblog) deleted ALL its attachments just to be sure there is no copyrighted material, after somebody attached a copyrighted crossreference datasheet book and the authors threatened to sue Elforum, even thought the copyrighted material was immediately removed.

- formatting issues, for example here it was not easy to insert pics inside text.  Thankfully, it is now possible on EEVblog to embed pics between text, thanks Dave!  :-+

- some sites have file size limitations or simply does not allow attachments but allow links, and so on

If it would be to store the file at home for the future, on a static IP address e.g. on a small RaspberryPi or similar, would Clowdflare let my pics pass, given the fact that I don't want to rent a domain name?

Zero999:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on August 20, 2019, 08:15:15 am ---- former elforum.ro (currently elforum.info, the Romanian equivalent of EEVblog) deleted ALL its attachments just to be sure there is no copyrighted material, after somebody attached a copyrighted crossreference datasheet book and the authors threatened to sue Elforum, even thought the copyrighted material was immediately removed.
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I doubt they were legally obliged to delete all attachments, which in itself wouldn't guarantee the site isn't violating copyright. Someone might have copied and pasted a significant amount of material into a post.

The webmaster was probably scared of future legal action, possibly because they had been very lax on copyrighted material in the past. A more sane approach would be to tell users to delete any material they've posted, report any they find and respond to any future complaints from copyright holders in a timely fashion. If they did all of that, it would be unlikely they would be sued, since they would be performing due diligence.

RoGeorge:
Indeed, that's how it mainly was, and the reaction from the webmaster side is totally understandable.  The webmaster was a private person hosting the server at home, and the forum was administered by volunteer moderators.  Nobody want legal harassment for a charitable side project.

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