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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Money is also made via image hosts, paying per thousand views of images of infringing content. It's a piracy free for all, which is going to come to an end.
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Yes image hosts business is big enough. Is a small screen capture image as infringing as a dvd rip or .iso of a software, which is 100% same as original?
I see that for music, a very low quality audio of a copyrighted song (for example a re-re-broadcast radio->webcam->internet which sounds really bad), it could be safe, because "quality it is so bad, that it does not give the same feeling of the original", some judge said in a few countries. Same argument it could be said of video thumbnails, which are resized and just few frames, so "only a preview" or "not giving same feeling of the original".
There was perfect10 to sue google for displaying preview thumbnails, there also google said hey but that's so smaller are you joking, it is only a preview.
Or couse uploading the full size photos of a photo site would be different but a quite small % of their business, main one is screencaps of covers or video contents.
Other way to argue with an image host, even if vidcaps can not be considered piracy on its own being "not give same feeling of original", it could be these facilitate the file locker with the full content, but, the image host may say they don't know if screencap is used for legal or illegal previews, in fact this is not easy to determine really.