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"What's this man's crime?"
"Distributing his own demo."
"Defense?"
"Says the record company mispromoted him with an excessively loud CD and bad Photoshopped images of him jumping up in the air."
"Was he under contract?"
"Yes."
"Prison and a $200,000 fine."

"What's this man's crime?"
"Busking near the the town fountain."
"Singing what?"
"'When You Wish Upon a Star.'"
"Without paying royalties?"
"Correct."
"Prison and a $200,000 fine. And if he's homeless, taser him."

A thin smile played across the face of the record company executive seated in the back of the courtroom.

"What is this man's crime?"
"He gave the gift of music."
"You mean he didn't buy the gift of music?"
"No."
"Prison and a $200,000 fine."

More thoughts on screen captures vis a vis photography:

1. Authorship is an issue even more than with Sherrie Levine/Richard Prince "rephotography," assuming the capture is some one else's work other than the capturer's. Putting a Walker Evans on the copystand, printing, framing, and exhibiting vs hitting the "printscreen" button, making a jpeg, and uploading to a blog.

2. Photography at its most indexical doesn't confuse as to its purpose. Whereas a screen capture that includes, say, YouTube controls, is far more likely to be mistakenly clicked by the consumer than merely passively viewed.

3. Captures are inherently irresponsible. Unless the capturer has included a surrounding frame (such as a web browser's scroll bars and address bar) the viewer has no way of knowing if the capture came from the web, the capturer's home computer, or somewhere else entirely. There are no easy verification methods such as looking for telltale signs of the clone stamp to detect Photoshopping.

More.
See also Wodzinski capture collection.

My "all Flickr Top Ten" has been posted on Paddy Johnson's blog as part of her Best Of The Web series, check it out.
Johnson has paired my BOTW selections with Ceci Moss's. Moss recently rebutted my "New Media vs Artists With Computers" post on Rhizome.org--that was much appreciated but still waiting for a reply to my reply to her reply.

You can see the argument continuing tacitly in our Top Tens. Generally speaking, her links go to sites heavy on interaction or documentation and mine favor direct, "one click" visual experiences (right-brain-aimed images or photos sans verbal narrative, instructions, or back story).

This isn't to say we can't appreciate each other's other brain halves and I've enjoyed her rebloggings of animations and other so-called eye candy on Rhizome.