You may be right. Changing subject slightly, does that argument apply with currency counterfeiting laws? I know this thread isn't about currency images, but Commons does actually pay a fair amount of respect to concerns that currency could be counterfeited, which has always surprised me somewhat, given that most currencies now use security methods that no high-resolution image will help with when counterfeiting.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Currency#Counterfeiting_tag Carcharoth On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:43 AM, FT2 <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the "high resolution helps forgers and impersonators" argument is > spurious. > > Let's assume the logo were to be used improperly. Most people don't know > what the "right" logo is. A decent image quality (straight lines, etc) would > fool most people if it looked "professional" whether technically accurate or > not. Social engineering does the rest (not everyone will argue with someone > who claims forcefully they are FBI). Basic image cleanup is something anyone > can do these days and any computer can tidy up a poor quality image to look > "clean" (photoshop). If there was doubt asd to appearance most impersonators > only need to google image: "fbi badge" to get close enough. > > In simple terms I don't see any merit whatsoever to a claim that a good > quality copy helps impersonators. Any impersonator will easily be able to do > the job well enough to fool most people, and any capable impersonator will > not be affected by Wikimedia's decision. > > FT2 > > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:11 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8 August 2010 16:57, Charles Matthews >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I think I found the word, early in 2007. Misunderstanding that Gerard is >> > more g'day than have a nice is a poor basis for any such judgement. >> >> >> Yes, the thread has been rather non sequitur all the way down. Assume >> some bad faith and why, it's a microcosm! >> >> >> - d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
