[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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