[P1] My IP is screwing up the jpegs
Mike Beede
beede at visi.com
Sun Feb 15 16:52:13 PST 2004
On Feb 13, 2004, at 8:05 PM, Jack Rodgers wrote:
> The jpeg inside my GoLive site files is 62KB. The jpeg on my site
> shows as 62 KB. When I drag the image from Safari to my desktop it is
> 32KB using my Merlin C201 card and Sprint. I haven't tested Earthlink
> but that is on my agenda. At this point it looks to me as if the file
> has been heavily compressed after it left my site. I would suspect
> that the idea is that even if there is a slight delay to recompress,
> it allows more throughput through the pipes at Sprint's end. Someone
> raised the issue as to whether this is a violation of copyright.
> Personally I am unhappy with the pixelation, artifacts and loss of
> quality.
I don't know about violation of copyright, but it sure seems to be
violating the agreement that they move your bits around. Time for
a new ISP, ASAP.
Mike Beede
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