2600 accused of using unauthorized ink splotches
Found on 2600 on Wednesday, 09 September 2015
We thought it was a joke for almost an entire day until one of us figured out that they were actually claiming our use of a small bit of ink splatter that was on one of their images was actionable.
You see, not only are they trying to get us to pay them for using a few ink splotches, but as it turns out, the ink splotches don't belong to them in the first place!
So not only is Trunk Archive trying to scare people into paying them for images, but they're apparently doing this for images they have absolutely no connection to.
Unless the entire field of copyrights gets a complete and sane reform (without the lobbying of the content industry), the trolling won't stop. This latest example underlines that Trunk/Ghetty doesn't even know who has the copyrights on the images they are using for their settlement suits and simply try to force payments from just everybody.