Hipster Runoff, Meet the Wrath of Freelance Photographer Kyle Dean Reinford

• Did it ever occur to you to place a watermark on your work with your name or company? Or were you too sh*t faced on PB to show up to that lecture?

• hi you little bitch photographer. do you not know that you have achieved something by being featured on this website. You fuck.

• I KNOW Kyle Dean Reinford, and the above slanders could not be more accurate! This kid has stolen enough pirated music over the years to make his hissy fit the most hypocritical bullshit I've ever heard. He even used to PEDDLE his stolen music on a music blog called 'Cafe Eclectica' under the guise of 'helping the artists get recognition.' He's full of shit!

• Copy protection is as much of as joke as being a photographer.

• Why do people think the HRO guy is just a comedian? A parody? Obviously? Who else really writes like that? On what blogs? It's more like a hipster stream of consciousness. Anyway, I don't think acknowledging how crass and venal pretty much everyone is amounts to hilarious comedy. It's pretty depressing, actually. Unless you don't want to think about anything. Which I don't. So it's basically ok.

• "It takes narcissistic personality disorder and poverty or a trust fund to birth these photos into the world. It's painful... like birthing a 10 pound blood covered baby" because taking pictures at a rock show for money is just the worst! get the fuck over yourself.

• Kyle, Bro, you're esoterically Internet famous for being a douche with a camera now and Carles just got real media sources to write about him again. You lost before you started. You photograph musicians whose listeners all steal their music. You probably own pirated MP3's. The only people on your team are Metallica and Hollywood. The Internet changed the game. Move past it. Do weddings if you need money. Attempt to be part of the solution instead of helping make Hipster Runoff more famous via lawsuits. Your photos are pretty good.

• from KDR's Website describing what kyle is: "pirate: kyle has a way of getting stuff for free" Don't sue me for quoting you you dick. KDR=Worst

• NO NO NO, I am the real KDR! This stupid troll copyraught/copywriteded MY name. I am talking to the webmaster now, I just scanned my drivers licensee to email him. Just letting you know, Kyle Dean Reinford

• Reinford needs to stop crying but i guess he needs this attention because his blog/shitty photography obviously isn't giving him any.

• Think I'd pay (and respect all relevant copyrights) to see some Kyle Dean Reinford snaps of Becca in a "compromising position."

• The REAL KDR here again Copyrighted my name now so nobody else can post as me on blogs without giving the real KDR credit. Should clear things up. I'm not dragging this on because it's the best thing that's ever happened to me. Not at all. -KDR. ;peacelovemusicpics;

• so uh... internet - 1 kyle - 0

• so uh... internet - 1 kyle - 0

• Kyle is clearly a hugely self-important, delusional child. Listen, this is hilarious no matter how you crack it but I recommend everyone check out his website (self-worship shrine) to get the full effect. He seriously, I am not kidding, writes about the "23 chest trophies" he won in his youth, etc. It reminds me of that farcical college admissions essay: http://bit.ly/7fxcKJ And, unlike HRO, it isn't tongue in cheek. http://other.kyledeanreinford.com/

• More on this story here: http://chrysler5thavenue.blogspot.com/2009/12/hipster-photographer-freaks-out.html

• this is fucking rediculous. more people have seen the photo on HRO than it would have had the potential to had it not been for CRLS. this bro is not a chill bro. i actually looked at his shit thanks to HRO. hes just being a prissy bitch. the credits are above the pixxxx. everyone wants to sue everybody. its a drive to get their dicks sucked.

• As stated before: It's utterly pathetic that a 'pro' photographer expects some sort of endorsement for something any 16y.o. with a camera can do, and it's even more pathetic to blog about it. lol, you pretentious faggots.

• Hi. this is the real Kyle dean rainford here. I am most definitely not those other two guys, but the first guy is totally bang on the LICENCE TRUTH AND MONEY.

• It's like Moses said. Don't steal y'all. Peace KDR.

• I am currently using kyles pics as background on my iphone. hope he doesn't sue me. scared y'all

• The REAL Kyle Dean Reinford here. Just wanted to make it clear that the above comment was not mine.

• i would be honored to have my photography on hro y'all

• This is exactly why the publishing industry is dying. I work in the publishing industry as a writer, photographer and designer. My job will last another 2 weeks and then my ship sinks. First the music industry, then publishing. what will you destroy next, internet?

• sweet

• KyleDR FTW!

• Hey guys, I just want to set some stuff straight. Two years ago I purchased a DSLR for two thousand dollars from Best Buy after receiving my associates degree from The Art Institute of Ohio- Cincinnati in photography. I printed some business cards out from my Dell All In One Inkjet Printer and moved to a meaningful metropolitan area. I moved to THE CITY! I've been working hard, real hard 2 support the arts with my art, photography. Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I take pix. Everyone has a talent! Don't h8. Appreesh8! If I want to sue CRLS for a linking to my picture on Flickr, I will. Because I'm an artist and art isn't free, yall! It takes narcissistic personality disorder and poverty or a trust fund to birth these photos into the world. It's painful... like birthing a 10 pound blood covered baby. Have n e of u birthed a 10 pound baby? That's what I thought. I'm a photographer. I'm a valuable member of society. If you link to my Flickr stream, you won't just be promoting my art or advancing my career. You'll be breaking international copyright law written to advance mankind by stifling creativity and benefiting politically influential oligopolists.

• Pretty good xx post. Why not just ask permission first? Also Zach, you should set this up a little better. Seems like Kyle wrote all that stupid sh*t in the beginning. "I think it is better for the scene if i..." stop right there. the opposite of what you think is better for the scene is probably better for the scene.

• which photo was it bro?

• Which photo is it? Kyle bro is certainly not a chill bro. But he is probably getting 'mad hits' for acting like this is a big deal to him therefore stringing this along... not kewl bro.

• I'm going to start a new blog called "hipster runoff". It's going to be a blog that supports the arts and the scene; that builds a partnership that enables us (me) to achieve our goals as artists, and stuff like that. My blog will take all the content from this other site i saw (which sucks) called hipster runoff. But with new and more ads. If Becca emails me, i'll just tell her she's killing the spirit, not stealing her original content.

• Only Daft Punk wear the Daft Punk masks, silly

• love ur tits becca

• Hello All! Becca here. Just wanted to let every one know that team H-Ro is getting this all taken care of. Now stop supporting this blog and visit us on our website. Best, Becca Editor-In-Cheif Hipsterrunoff.com/

• it's about time someone stood up to this charles guy. I can't wait until the hipster runoff site is shut down. hahahahaha

• this Kyle bro doesn't seem very chill.

• seems like the internet is a really hard place to GUARD UR SHIT when u make it so available. WHAT NO CRED????? mostly kyle seems like a whiney bitch i'm already tired of, 'move it'.

• its a common process for the isp to shut the site down temporarily until the offending content is removed. since its apparent he doesnt want to remove it, site will probably go down

• What is the photographers problem? I don't get it... Is he actually losing out by an innocent photo being on HRO?

• the best part is that kyle can bring that site down with a single dmca letter. surpised to see it up still, actually.

• Calling Kyle a shithead for trying to protect his work from people stealing it? What did he do that would make him a "shithead"? Most of his tweets are quotes from Hipster Runoff's email to him. And most of those quotes are pretty douchebaggy. "I think it would be better for the scene" "I thought it would be chill to share it"... He still hasn't taken the picture down. What a dick.

• um kyle, get ova yrself. this is so dumb.

• despite HRO being a parody, stealing other people's work and then being sued for it is not something carles, whoever the fuck he is, is immune to

• I think since HRO is a parody of earnest indie blogger dudes and self-aggrandizing shitheads like Kyle, his post might safely fall under "Fair Use"

• Re: lame @ 1:20AM; The line that says "I am just trying to support the arts" was not what Kyle said, he was quoting what "Hipster Runoff" said. Hipster Runoff was trying to legitimize his theft of Kyle's photo by saying that he (hipster runoff) was supporting the arts, and Kyle was killing the spirit of sharing by asking him to take it down. Most concert photogs don't get paid for their work. But it is copyrighted work, and you can't just use it without permission.

• He's in character and, just like me, laughing his ass off.

• Too bad you can't sue an anonymous figure.

• blog photographers are not paid, so it is especially not cool to steal their work

• how is it that a blog photographer that shits all over the bands he's paid to photograph "supporting the arts"?

• this is a pathetic internet argument and even more pathetic post about it

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