This entire website, "www.patbyrnes.com," is copyrighted. People have fairly paid to have the rights to use have this material created for them to use it. If a neighbor borrowed your lawnmower—without telling you—there is a good chance you'd be irked. The civil thing to do is ask. Even if you invite him in, serve him a beer in your best beer mug, you'd be more than a little put out if he left with the mug.

That's kind of what it's like when you take images from web sites without permission. Sure, look, share links, post on Facebook. But you can't "take them home." You can't use them on your own blog or company's web site. Not without asking. I know we're in a post-respecting-copyright era, but have you ever wondered if that attitude of entitlement is contributing to the fraying of civility in society today?

Be a part of the common decency revolution, and ask before copying. Your great-grandchildren who are not living in a savage hellscape will thank you. And I thank you.