I kind of have a question I hope I’m wrong.........I invited one cat from You Tube but they declined because they were worried about one of the conditions for joining. Apparently it says...
"Catster.com's proprietary rights
By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the catster.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, right to publicly display or re-display such Materials in other formats not simply limited to websites."
He then said..
The above means they own your photos and can publish books, calendar, greeting cards or anything of your photos for a profit and pay you nothing for it.
I can see where he’s coming from.
I think these guys would love Catster if it wasn’t for that clause and how it’s written.
http://www.youtube.com/user/utahactor
I hope it isn’t the case and we the cat-tographers retain exclusive rights for our photos. I understand that Catster can use our photos in other things like newsletters, the front page and other things to do with Catster. That’s fun and used in good faith on the site we use. But to use our photos for monitory gain elsewhere I think would be wrong.
Am I wrong????????? I hope so.
Also about the ads, I know there are many that are complaining about the new roll over ones and how they chew up the bandwidth.
I can understand that, I had real big problems last year that my catputer couldn’t handle catster and the pages wouldn’t load.
I needed an upgrade, well the catputer was dying anyway so it needed something to be done with it.
There used to be a flashing one (ad) I wrote to Catster and told them it wasn’t nice and hard on the eyes.
I’m not sure if they were listening but I’m sure pleased they are no longer there, I’m just hoping they don’t come back.
I know many cats use software to remove the ads but that’s crazy, what about those just joining that don’t know the tricks. No wonder there aren't too many new cats joining. It’s too hard to use and it’s no fun if you can’t get the site (Catster).
I wonder if there is a way they can make the ads smaller, as in... they don’t take up as much energy to run. Or have them static. Do they listen to our comments? I know they used to, they were great and it felt like we could contact them. But I’m not sure anymore as it all seems so much cooler now. * D pouts*
We love Catster it’s fun here, though I have to admit the human was very busy last year, and we didn’t get as much us time on Catster. *D pouts again* So sorry we haven't been around much.
We hope all is good with our fur-riends and I hope this year has started out well for you all.
Many purrs from us
It has a little pouch for the tracking device to sit in so it doesn't hang off the collar. LOL or they would dip it in their water bowl. It is very light weight You can see it on one of D's photos Photo of D with the tracking device
I did wonder where D was the other day so I used the loc8tor. It didn't
find him right away, the tracker must have been tucked under his fur while he
was asleep. I walked around outside until I started to give me a reading I was calling him too. He must have gotten up because I then started to get a direction to head. I tracked him to a room inside the house. It kind of worked, and through walls (once he was standing).
It's nice to know I do have another tool to track him with. He has
a collar with a name tag
Micro chip
and now the tracking device, lol if the collar stays on him.
When the GPS ones get better and the battery lasts longer we will probably get one of those.
I like the fact it'll (the GPS ones) will let us know if he goes somewhere we don't want him to go. But that will have to be in the future.
I hope this info helps other furs as it's not nice to lose a furry friend. Purrs for the ones that are missing I hope you are found soon.
Purrs Mr D
Meows, Thank you Da Tabbies O trout towne and Ollies family for responding to my diary entry.
I know the human has been very slack at writing my thank yous, she still intends on doing it. She starts and then has problems with the gift shop unfortunately she doesn’t have time, she feels bad about it. We may just need to send out thank yous that are copy and pasted. I'm so sorry.
Normally we write different ones, but this time with the slow catputer and the gift shop not opening it's an impossible task.
I put the diary entry here to see if anyone was in NZ, so we could catch up since we are so close to the action.
The human has been really busy at work trying to sort stuff out. Today she has a day off but in the afternoon she has to go to a conference so that will wipe out the rest of her day.
BUMMER...
I hope all is good with everyfur and yes I'm good and really really happy to be home. The old guy Balty's still with us Raza went to the vets again for a UTI. The drugs she's on, she loves, so that's a huge plus and Sam is her normal purrty self purring and as loveable as ever
That’s our news we hope all is good with everyone else
Purrs Mr D
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