mwinter - 1:37 pm on Jan 25, 2013 (gmt 0)

@netmeg Companies like Napster also delivered what the "user preferred" - free content, that is. But they made the mistake of serving music instead of images, so they got sued into oblivion.

Let's face the truth here: Pinterest, Bing, Google, Yandex etc. etc. are all having a field day with copyrighted images precisely because they know that visual artists and photographers don't have the sort of powerful lobby that the film and music industry has. Laws only matter when someone enforces them, or fights for them.