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Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal by johnisgood on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:28AM (#20819085)
I do not know but I encountered this more often than not. Direct links to images are a rare occurrence in my experience. I usually just right click on the image, then click on "Open Image in New Tab" which will get me what I want. Off-topic but: was it not Google that tried to work around this so one could not do even this in the search results?
Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal by n8henry on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:47AM (#20819220)
Google removed that functionality because of a settlement with Getty.
Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal by giancarlostoro on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:02AM (#20819321)
That is awful and fundamentally flawed. If it's on my device, I can save it.

Edit: Come to think of it, if it's on my device, it's already saved in some way, shape and form. Clearly nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue Google.

What Google should of done is offered to advertise that an image is available to purchase...

Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal by dspillett on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:25AM (#20819495)
> awful and fundamentally flawed

Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense. And even when it seems to from your perspective, the way others interpret it does not.

> nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue

Technical people can be arseholes too you know. Many patent trolls are technical people, not just legal eagles, for instance.

Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal by MichaelApproved on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:18AM (#20819994)
> Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense.

This isn't about the law. It's unclear if the law would require something like this or not. Google decided not to find out by settling. The settlement terms were up to the two companies to decide and were not mandated by laws.

Re:WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal by eythian on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:54AM (#20820386)