Were you aware..........

that Photobucket is public and anything you put on there ( unless you set your account to private) can be used by anyone? I had no idea on this , and really the whole issue of digital piracy. but the question was posed in a comment on Miss Tangie's blog. and she set me straight! with this post, read it here! SO i was very concerned as to the public use of my stuff i uploaded for my personal use. and rather horrified that someone might abuse that i had it on there. SO i Googled the question, " can i set my photobucket account to private?" and found out i could. So I'll tell you how to do it in case you didn't know!

1. you log in on photobucket.com to your account
2. you click on the words : account options
3. you scroll down until you see album settings and click on the words edit my album settings
4. then you see My album is: with a drop down box. click on it and select private.
   
5. and then you save.
   
6. Now your stuff is for your use only and you aren't helping people commit digital piracy.
   

I feel darn fabulous about that. so now you need to go make sure your goodies are safe from pirates m' heartys! argh! and read the short version of how to avoid committing blogger piracy on Tangie's blog. in regards to the technicalities of blog templates which you can use photobucket , just make sure use a private album.
AND for the longer version check out this site here
and also you are totally supposed to credit the designers and not share your digi scrapping papers. they are for your own personal use. whether for digi scrapping or blog templates! FYI! that is why the public photobucket becomes an issue. if you upload it there and other people use it, then they can pirate stuff that was only meant to be used by you. Thus the digital piracy dilemma continues! make your photobucket private!

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and be aware Tangie has a list of all her freebies still available, until tonight! Saturday! so check out what she has. and get some freebies while you can!