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Can you clarify whether you used the photo correctly under an appropriate license?

• oxplot 4y ago
  Nope. Just google searched and dropped it in the screenshot.
  • hammyhavoc 4y ago
    Having once made this mistake in my teens about twelve years ago, just be glad that the copyright owner didn't pursue you over it, it could have been much worse, and is a lesson learned a relatively easy way.
    • tut-urut-utut 4y ago
      Yeah, parent should have been laying at least 10 years in prison for such a “huge” mistake. Maybe we need to re-introduce back a death penalty for such serious crimes?
      • hammyhavoc 4y ago
        Intellectual property law is intellectual property law.
        • tut-urut-utut 4y ago
      • KennyBlanken 4y ago
        Nobody said they should go to jail. We're saying maybe parent commenter is being a tad unreasonable complaining that their app got pulled and banned "without warning" for commercial use of a celebrity's image. "I didn't break the law that bad, why was I punished so severely!" is exceptionally immature.
        • Dylan16807 4y ago
          I think it's very reasonable to be upset if my entire app was pulled because google didn't like a screenshot!
        • oxplot 4y ago
          > commercial use of a celebrity's image It's only commercial use if I made any sort of profit from it, which I didn't. So nope, not commercial.
• satellite2 4y ago
  He did not since he mention it was a mistake. The quotes around huge convey the meaning that he admits the error while finding the punishment disproportionate.
  • hammyhavoc 4y ago
    Frankly, I asked for clarification.
    • noasaservice 4y ago
      • hammyhavoc 4y ago
        And if you bothered to read my reply to them before you rudely interjected, you would see that I shared that experience and consoled them over it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31434328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31434328 Touch grass.
        • monkey_monkey 4y ago
          That's really not consoling, that's just telling them it's lucky they didn't get punished harder.
          • hammyhavoc 4y ago
            Text lacks tone. I'd buy the dude a beer. I'm very much a "it can always be worse" kind of guy. Being able to relate is human quality numero uno. Jumping down the throats of others is a negative trait, but I'm not going to call you names or tell you how to be because I'm not a control freak.
            • monkey_monkey 4y ago
              I appreciate you not calling me names. I feel blessed.