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Pricing? That's a bit rich. Will people who don't want to pay for images pay for this?
by PeterBarrett 4y ago
Pricing? That's a bit rich. Will people who don't want to pay for images pay for this?
- l5870uoo9y 4y agoi also fail to see a market for this, but 50K installs on android and close to 1200 likes on product hunt suggests that there might be
- halfjoking 4y agoThere’s probably a huge market of people that haven’t kept up with the AI boom, and they don’t know free tools exist for this. HN isn’t that market. I never used it for watermarks but llama-cleaner is one - it worked pretty well at removing text. https://github.com/Sanster/lama-cleaner https://github.com/Sanster/lama-cleaner
- bravoetch 4y agoSeems like a post-scarcity race to the bottom. The question is whether we can encumber post-scarce resources with IP in a meaningful way for much longer.
- Pxtl 4y agoBruce Sterling said it best: "Information wants to be worthless"
- lm28469 4y agoThere is a lot of watermarked content that you can't buy as a digital file, content on redbubble comes to mind for example (stickers. clothing designs, &c.), harvest watermarked art, clean it up, put it for sale somewhere else. I don't think this tool targets well intentioned law abiding, copyright respecting people
- dahart 4y agoI’m not sure I understand what you mean… isn’t harvesting watermarked art from redbubble and selling it somewhere else illegal under copyright law, if you don’t own the product or the image? Did I misunderstand your suggestion? How and when is taking a watermark off something you didn’t create well intentioned and law abiding?
- Semaphor 4y agoYou missed a "don't"
- hombre_fatal 4y agoIt is a much different problem to pay for a license for every single image you have scraped from an arbitrary variety of sources and watermarks than to pay for software that removes any watermark.