1) Fear that someone else will take the images and profit from them somehow (financially or existentially) while your little site flutters sadly in the wind. Kind of a “thieves assuming everyone else is a thief” thing.

2) Misplaced sense of having “created” something by putting a sheet of paper on a plate of glass and pushing a button. Because, you know, nobody *else* could have pushed that button.

3) Thinking that this bit of brilliance could potentially drive traffic to your site, if only everyone knew where it was! Sadly, this actually works sometimes (*cough* Eric Bauman *cough*).

Given the kind of bandwidth I get for my $15 a month hosting package, I don’t expect to ever see that kind of problem nowadays(unless I get into really specialized pr0n).

I’m not necessarily excusing the folks who do that now, just plopping in a bit of perspective.

There are assholes everywhere. I’ve got one myself.

Doesn’t mean I have to like them all, now does it?

And why can’t I call most software executives, bloggers or BBS operators self-important assholes too?

Don’t categorize all people of one type as assholes. If you’ve never met a software executive, a blogger, or a BBS operator who is also a self-important asshole, then I guess maybe you could call librarians assholes based on your sample, but I think you’re biased because of those high-school teachers (who were just old women who got paid to sit around in a library).