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Zantus -

I made my comments to Humblegunner based on his opinion about what he and I likely agree on, with respect to the theft without attribution of other peoples web content; without investigating if such is true with regard to the web site zpatriot.

I did not exhaust myself checking out every story and image on zpatriot.

Of the images I did investigate I did find, as you suggested, that a link for the Internet source of an image B$ it was posted on zpatriot is present in some form on zpatriot.

That means as far as zpatriot is concerned, it is honoring those links and not “stealing” the images for its own use.

I cannot say that holds true for every source zpatriot links back to; were/are THOSE sources EVER using purloined content or not.

However;

Using google image search, for three of the images: one seems to be an original source, and two eventually linked to flicker accounts. A possible problem is that both of those images at flicker say that their owners do not permit public downloading of the image, but that protection is turned off/or not applied at zpatriot and you are allowed to copy the images there. Then again, for all I know, the owner(s) of the flicker account(s)/source(s) MAY BE the one(s) who delivered the image(s) unprotected through the links to zpatriot, as google image search could find no other copies.

In conclusion, like you found, I found nothing unsavory about zpatriot’s posting of the images that I looked into - the links are there and seem to go back to what appears to be an original source.