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Sunday, August 28, 2005
CHINFO/FHTNC/USAFNS Debacle - #2A - Speaking of the "Official" U.S. Navy Seal
Last night my daughter, who is an ardent web surfer, sent me a link to a website named Fotosearch that has a large collection of images for sale. If you enter "naval insignia" in Fotosearch's search field, you find that they have 1,356 Naval insignia images for sale. Some are royalty free (read public domain material developed by our tax dollars), but they charge for them. I browsed through the pages of images, and "lo and behold", guess what I found? I found that the firm is selling the very same image that the CHINFO staffer wanted me to remove from USAFNS.com. Not only do they have the official seal for sale, they have it in Black & White, as well as color. And, for only $39, you too can download either image, or $78 for both, or if you want many Navy images, you can order a disc with 678 images from One Mile Up, Inc. for only $335.95. Don't believe me, check it out for yourself:
http://www.fotosearch.com/OMU115/11p0157/ Navy Seal (B&W)
http://www.fotosearch.com/OMU115/11p0163/ Navy Seal (COLOR)
$39 for a download! That price is excessive and is about thrice the price for reasonable reproduction costs if they were selling it on a CD or floppy. I could rant on about the CHINFO staffer that claims to be the "Webmaster of the Navy." But I won't, because I would probably make myself vulnerable to a libel lawsuit, and the facts speak for themselves, VERY LOUDLY!
~G - In my next installment, I may name the Webmaster of the Navy.
http://www.fotosearch.com/OMU115/11p0157/ Navy Seal (B&W)
http://www.fotosearch.com/OMU115/11p0163/ Navy Seal (COLOR)
$39 for a download! That price is excessive and is about thrice the price for reasonable reproduction costs if they were selling it on a CD or floppy. I could rant on about the CHINFO staffer that claims to be the "Webmaster of the Navy." But I won't, because I would probably make myself vulnerable to a libel lawsuit, and the facts speak for themselves, VERY LOUDLY!
~G - In my next installment, I may name the Webmaster of the Navy.
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