Remember The Copyright Infringement And Stealing Bandwidth When Adding Images

There are so many specific activities performed by blogger, especially in Blogger. Writing articles, designing the blog look, updating content, including adding images or photos. From these various specific activities, adding images is an activity that seems to need to get more attention. Why?, Because adding the image into a post has a close linkage with an aspect of highly law-valued, namely copyright (infringement).

When a blogger will be adding images for then inserted into a post, it will show a dialog box with two options in it. The first is to upload images from blogger's PC hard drive, and the second is to put an image URL (web address).

The second option is what should be examined by bloggers, especially for bloggers who have ethics, honesty, and respect and want her or his blog still exist on the web for a long term, and not removed by Blogger. But unfortunately, there are still many bloggers, especially newbies, who do not and have not understood this. The newbie bloggers who do not understand how essential this case, usually tend to come from a country that is not so familiar with Internet, underdeveloped countries, or come from countries with most cases of piracy.

At the time of adding images, maybe you will deal with Copyright Infringement and Stealing Bandwidth issue, and this can make your blog be removed, even with bigger consequences.

Although in the dialog box of adding images along with a Warning: Remember: Using others images on the web without their permission may be bad manners, or worse, copyright infringement. But this does not guarantee that the blog authors aware of the risk that can arise and must be borne. Such these blog authors, sometimes because they really really do not understand about how the use of images on the web in a safe, fair and not infringe or violate copyright. This is really strange and maybe you won't believe, but it was really happening on this web.

In addition, there are many other blog authors too who think that using images by way of putting URL of images from other website, is not risky because they use them for their own personal blogs. And this is the group or type of bloggers who are supposed to understand the true consequences of this case.

Related to this matter, here are the consequences which may arise when putting the image URL from other website:
1. Without doing any permissions to image copyright holders, the bloggers could be punished because of copyright infringement
2. Stealing bandwidth, this is one of acts of crime in cyberspace
3. Automatically, the blogger's blog can or must be removed by parties who have authority.
In essence, the ethical blogger is a blogger who respect copyrighted works.