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Title: FBI Wants Wikipedia to Remove Insignia
Post by: BlueBlaster on Tuesday, August 03, 2010, 22:02:56 PM
This is a news article
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20012575-93.html

Recently (why hasn't this happened earlier?), the FBI is pissing on Wikipedia because they have their seal on the FBI page. I haven't checked the page but I'm pretty sure its an SVG so it can be scaled to any resolution. The FBI isn't that dumb and know this so they are thinking someone is going to try and print a high-quality FBI badge or something. Wikipedia told them to piss off.

Personally I think FBI should shut up. Nobody is going to go print that thing. Even if they do they aren't getting far; unless they want a pretty poster with the FBI symbol. Anyway, this is a free online encyclopedia and it has a lot of good info. In order to have a successful free and open info resource center, there's gotta be some "high authorities" that have to shut the hell up or they just look like two 8 year fat kids arguing over the toy airplane.
Title: Re: FBI Wants Wikipedia to Remove Insignia
Post by: Spanky on Tuesday, August 03, 2010, 22:09:13 PM
That's lame. Anything can be ripped/stolen but it takes skill to properly create a replica.
Title: Re: FBI Wants Wikipedia to Remove Insignia
Post by: BlueBlaster on Tuesday, August 03, 2010, 22:10:57 PM
Yea Im pretty sure the real badges are made of metal or sewn together. Both of which isn't available to any average or advanced googler.
Title: Re: FBI Wants Wikipedia to Remove Insignia
Post by: Spanky on Wednesday, August 04, 2010, 03:29:27 AM
get asses to crime scenes
???
Title: Re: FBI Wants Wikipedia to Remove Insignia
Post by: Knight on Wednesday, August 04, 2010, 07:13:36 AM
Riiiiiight cause tampering with evidence in a federal investigation is smart.
Title: Re: FBI Wants Wikipedia to Remove Insignia
Post by: Archeh on Wednesday, August 04, 2010, 15:11:21 PM
(https://aao25.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdeathby1000papercuts.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F11%2Ffbi_logo.gif&hash=e4773be6e85cb8c7630c27569dbd63d3)
Title: Re: FBI Wants Wikipedia to Remove Insignia
Post by: BlueBlaster on Wednesday, August 04, 2010, 15:30:13 PM
Sorry sir, I don't think you can use that because it is:

However you may proceed with any doing as long as it isn't poking fun at the government establishment. :D



I just check the source on the FBI wiki page and they ripped the SVG from a PDF here http://www.dni.gov/100-day-plan/100_FOLLOW_UP_REPORT.pdf.
Also in this PDF are seals from almost every other major US department like the marines, navy, drugs, cia, etc. I think maybe whoever made the PDF should have been thinking to convert the vector files into bitmaps so they cant scale all the seals to infinite size. Because I just zoomed in 1600% on my PDF viewer on the marines seal lol.