Hacker magazine 2600 extorted for $714 over ink spot pic copyright troll doesn't own
What do you see when you look at the ink blotches below?
Don’t worry; this isn’t part of a psychological evaluation to determine your personality characteristics, emotional functioning or potential thought disorders. However if it were part of an ink blot test (Rorschach Test), then Trunk Archive, a subsidiary of Getty Images, looks at the image and sees dollar signs…$714 to be specific. Trunk Archive, claiming the ink splatter is one of its images, cried, “Copyright infringement!” It is demanding a $714 payment from the hacker magazine 2600. No, this is not a joke; 2600 has been “accused of using unauthorized ink splotches.”
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