Okay, back?
Well, you may have noticed that some of the posters are kind of racy--to the point, apparently, that Picasa, which used to host them, terminated his paid account for terms of service violation (over Schulmädchen-Report posters). He's concerned that my new Flickr Pro account could go the same way as soon as I load it up with fumetti covers and such.
Here's the thing--Flickr actually permits that kind of content, as long as it's behind a filter. Here's the Help page where they explain all that. I've experimented with the settings, and basically viewing anything above "Safe" requires you to sign in to Flickr, which adds the hassle of having to create a (free) account for the purpose of signing in if you don't have one already. Once that's done, you still have to click through a warning page and/or take the default "Safe" filter off your view/search settings--all that just to view an image designated "Moderate."
Worst of all:
If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service (this means you won’t be able to turn SafeSearch off). If your Yahoo! ID is based in Germany you are not able to view restricted content due to your local Terms of Service.WTF?!? You're shitting me? Hong Kong can only view Safe, and Germany can't view Restricted?!? That's counter-intuitive and pretty fucked up.
Since the purpose of posting images is to share them, it's frustrating then to have to make access to them less convenient, but I know too many people who have gotten dinged (including me--youtube slapped me for one video I uploaded, which is why I switched to vimeo, and issuu removed my Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist and warned me against any further violations) to take chances. I apologize in advance for any hassles!
1 comments:
It's a sad state of affairs but I imagine hosting options on the same scale as Flickr & Picasa are likely to have the same restrictions in the same territories. I suspect that if Yahoo didn't filter its traffic to China in such a way then it would find all its traffic filtered by China, and far more thoroughly.
I think you'll be able to find an option that doesn't pre-censor itself, but whether it will offer the dependability and longevity of Google or Yahoo is another matter.
Of course Picasa suspending Bosnuk's account is yet another matter, and one that might cause one to wonder about the price of such 'dependability'.
Awesome job with the covers, at any rate.
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