This is way off topic, but I tried a web service today that "Optimizes" the web experience. This was for dial up service. Basically, the optimization involves the re-writting of JPG files to be smaller. So, as an ex&le, at my site, an image I have worked hard on to look good at 30KB, now appears to the user as a 6KB image and with the original size parameters. In other words ... it looks terrible. I don't understand what gives the "right" of an ISP to rewrite a site (modify the original images) during the download process? This is a big "bust" for photographers trying to sell images on the internet, simply because the images are now looking terrible! A photographer works hard to make his site presentable, and then the third party (ISP) simply takes that site and "rewrites" the images for speed and not for content.
Any recourse? I really look at this as being an interference with commerce since the ISP is damaging the photographers web site during the download process
Any recourse? I really look at this as being an interference with commerce since the ISP is damaging the photographers web site during the download process