Thursday 23 September 2010

Aaaah

Generally speaking I avoid the web's vast resource of photos of cute cats, but even my stony heart found this one impossible to resist.


It goes under the title "Ninja Kitty" and can be found here.

Genius.

2 comments:

bodiegroup said...

I realize you may have found this impossible to resist. but by taking this image and removing the link to my original image (that's my photo and my cat) You are violating my copyright. Please remove this image OR link it directly to the source image.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bodiegroup/4680006172/in/set-72157624103529399/

LeDuc said...

Er... I've no idea what "link it directly to the source image" means. So I'm hoping that publishing your comment with the link to flickr fulfills whatever it is you want me to do (though quite why you want the hordes of perverts who loiter round my blogs to visit your flickr site is a mystery to me! Um... I include myself in that phrase "hordes of perverts", incidentally).

Also incidentally, don't you think "violating" is too strong a word for a minor civil copyright infringement? I know it's in common usage but it feels to me like it kind of demeans and diminishes rape and torture and other forms of real violation involving, er, violence. Especially since this blog has absolutely zero commercialisation associated with it -- not even a single advert -- so no-one is actually making money from your sterling efforts, let alone taking any away from you.

It's not your fault: I always think the copyright debate is on the verge of tipping over into hysteria, largely because idiot, old-fashioned content companies are so pathetically trying to defend their pre-digital business models and are, Cnut-like, trying to hold back the world. It's why the world's biggest online retailer of music is now a computer hardware manufacturer, rather than one of the massive music businesses. They spent way too much time arguing for the criminalisation of their own customers and ever-increasing regulatory protection rather than developing new business models.

Anyway, it's a great photograph. Well done!