Why oh why do knitters and crocheters repeatedly find
themselves victims of those who want to make money from their work? I am only
going to provide the links to discussions on Ravelry on the issue, because I
don’t want to be complicit in driving traffic to the owner of the websites. But
free knitting and crochet patterns appear to have been universally harvested
from designer websites, blogs, Knitty and Ravelry etc. to an advertising-ridden
site that links the user to the pattern in most instances without the
permission of the designer. Photographic content has apparently been used
without the permission of the photographer, in some instances patterns have
been renamed, and even though I admit to being graphically impaired, the photos on
the site are horridly distorted to the point where I barely recognized the
photograph of a pattern I know well.
As revealed by a Ravelry user this morning, the images are inline linked in a way
that website owners could end up paying for the traffic going to the free
website.
Here are links to some of the forums on Ravelry where this
issue is being discussed:
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