Mike Raiford wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> 
>> The businesses using it have money, so that law doesn't apply to them. 
>> In the US, we only bust kids playing with computers and charge them 
>> with being cyber terrorists.
> 
> The "terrorist" du jour appears to be a woman and her father taking 
> pictures of butterflies on petunias.
> 
> My wife and her dad were taking pictures of a butterfly in some town 
> square shopping area type setting. A security guard approached them, and 
> demanded they sign paperwork stating they wouldn't share the pictures on 
> the internet.
> 
> They didn't sign any paperwork. :)
> 
> I so very much wish I were there. But it's probably a good thing, 
> because what I would have done would most assuredly get myself thrown in 
> jail.

Good for them!

I wouldn't have signed it either, and probably would have been too busy 
laughing at the security guard to ask him to prove that s/he could 
identify the petunia and butterfly that I was taking a picture of, and 
to prove that s/he had the authority to ask me to sign paperwork. Then I 
would have offered the butterfly a dollar to sign a model release, if 
the guard could catch it

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