since it is utterly impossible to establish a forensic chain of custody of evidence for these images and if they were all heavily altered by various software applications then why did you remove half of the photos in the set?

Are all of the other images you found in swap meets on your set altered as well?

Are you leading us to believe that all the photos in your set are not indeed scans of photos you found but instead the work of some photo-shop savant? And if so why would you remove the work of someone who is obviously so talented in his work?

All photos of people which were identifiable and "using cocaine", have been removed. If the people who commented on setting up these photos were so secure in the belief that they did not post anything wrong then they would have left them up.

All photos of people which were identifiable and "using cocaine", have been removed. If the people who commented on setting up these photos were so secure in the belief that they did not post anything wrong then they would have left them up.

so because someone made comments on the photo's that they posted without permission no litigation can follow?

There are rules on Flickr that clearly state you should not upload photos that are not your own or that you have not taken.

http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

You own the exclusive rights to photographs that you take and unless you explicitly hand over that right to someone, nobody else has legal control over those photos.

I agree with TECHNO GEEK.

These pictures are listed as found in a swap meet, and the person projects the image that he/she does not know who these people are, nor do they state they received permission to post.

I don't think it is right that you would post pictures of someone else without their consent. Would you want someone doing the same to you?

I agree that whomever posted these finds themselves with a lawsuit. Our society has no respect for privacy of others, which can be shown by America's obsession with stars, yet we'll be the first to complain when someone disrupts our own privacy stating that its a different situation but only when it affects you directly. There are no exceptions, every person in this country is entitled to privacy and the person who posted these pictures obviously does not respect that.