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We would like to express our views, concerning some difficulty we are having at www.iskconmedia.com. We worked really hard putting together a nice photo gallery at this site. It contains many photos of our founder acarya, Srila Prabhupada and so many beautiful pictures of Krishna, His pastimes, etc… The BBT has sent an email restricting the site to use only twenty pictures, and other regulations. We can understand the need to have a copyright notice, but to force us to take down the whole website that contains more than 19,000 photos, why?

The reason, they say is for protecting Srila Prabhupada’s rights, but how? If they are referring to losing laxsmi on sales, it is proven that authors now WANT their work distributed widely on the internet. Why? When the author’s works is distributed widely on the internet, it becomes known, and people want the hard copy of it.

Take for example, Paulo Coelho’s strategy:

“I use the internet for distribution. I released one book exclusively on the internet and we had an amazing one million downloads. But even though this is a high number, I didn’t receive a single comment on the book. No one was actually reading the book. In 2001, we had really no readers in Russia. My best seller, The Alchemist was selling a one thousand copies per year. And then it was pirated on Bittorrent and people started to download it. The next year it sold ten thousand copies, the following year, one hundred thousand copies, and today we have sold over ten million copies in Russia.”

Here are just a few advantages of the site:

Any devotee can print high-resolution pictures for their temple. We have not seen another web site like it.
We are now working on a word search, which you can search by locations, people, etc….
It is a fantastic way to distribute Srila Prabhupada’s photos on the internet.

On the other hand, what are the advantages of prohibiting us from putting on these photos on the Internet as we are doing now? What could be the positive result of such actions? How does this restriction enhance preaching?

We would really love to hear your opinion on this matter