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Help and Advice / Re: unknown port

« on: February 04, 2010, 09:14:25 AM »

In UN/LOCODE MAG means Magnolia (don't know exactly which one).

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Shipping News and information / Re: Invisible-class carrier in Portsmouth

« on: January 31, 2010, 05:55:56 PM »

Ups, now i see

Yes, Invincible sounds much better for this warship. In Russia is also popular to give such "big" names to navy ships. Even was a joke in one movie then one admiral said to press:
- We will send destroyer "Composer Yuri Shostakovich"
- May be "Dmitry Shostakovich"?
- No, "Yuri"!
- But composer's name was "Dmitry"!
- (small pause) I told to that guys: call this destroyer "Brave" or "Resolute", but they wanted to show off!!! :-x

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Shipping News and information / Re: Invisible-class carrier in Portsmouth

« on: January 31, 2010, 05:10:45 PM »

Thanks Steve! Glad to hear that i've seen flagship of Royal Navy

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Shipping News and information / Invisible-class carrier in Portsmouth

« on: January 30, 2010, 10:10:05 PM »

Please help to identify, which one of the Invisible-class air carriers is currently located in Portsmouth and well seen from historic dockyards? Thanks in advance.

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Help and Advice / Re: Copyright issue - automatic watermark

« on: January 10, 2010, 09:15:00 AM »

I'm not against photo distribution, but author and photo source should be identified in another sites. As we see in practice this does not always happen (were few topics about this last months). Technically this can be avoided by using watermark (like in airliners.net or vessel tracker and so on). Don't see anything idiotic in this idea. As for 24h authorisation etc - i think its too strict activities and can scare new users.

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Help and Advice / Re: Copyright issue - automatic watermark

« on: January 07, 2010, 08:18:30 PM »

Let's say current copyright marks for thumbnails are:
1. Too easily to crop in editor
2. Looks bad from design point of view.
3. Too annoying :-)
It should be something light and semitransparent. And this watermark should be available not only in thumbnails, but also in full-size photos.
I don't think that site-holders in this case will waste time to cut it out.

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Help and Advice / Copyright issue - automatic watermark

« on: January 07, 2010, 01:16:29 PM »

Regarding latest FAQ issues and photos distribution to 3rd party. It would be nice to add automatic watermark to all photos with shipspotting.com and author name, for clear identification of the photo source after redistribution and so on.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ady Gil's Bow sheared off after collision with Japanses Whaler

« on: January 06, 2010, 01:36:22 PM »

Video of this accident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbuq0YEIPNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEmzp054cOA

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ady Gil's Bow sheared off after collision with Japanses Whaler

« on: January 06, 2010, 11:23:35 AM »

Sad. She was nice bird :-(

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Shipping News and information / Re: and this photo pirated too ?...

« on: December 29, 2009, 08:22:14 PM »

I'm not a lawyer actually, but IMHO that's quite thin line between these terms (of course if you are not directly selling stolen pictures). E.g. in wiki there is an article re to US laws which as i understand allow distribution of copyrighted data in some cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

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