Originally Posted by
stronglight
I've heard that a couple individuals had their lower resolution photos simply
STOLEN outright off the internet... And, they would have gladly offered much better quality photos - for FREE - if they had only been asked.

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This is true. My friends Jeremy's wife was the photographer who took the shot of the woman wearing the Campagnolo belt buckle. They took the picture off her flickr and cropped the watermark out.
here is the image in question
here it is on her flickr