Hi cookies, today I still am very pissed. Why? Because I discovered one art thief on last week and it is personal matter. Personal because that not only that scumbag has stolen some artwork from others ( over 300 pictures, minus screenshots ) including yours truly too at the end of the list.
I am amazed that only one of my works has ended stolen. Meaning that the rest of them if there is any which is very possible I haven’t yet found at all but I have time to sniff them out sooner or later.
Image that ended up stolen was Vinnie’s combat training suit. That black sleeveless shirt, blue pants and armored boots thing. This week I also discovered that there’s slightly manipulated version about that picture.
That pisses me even more than finding copy of my artwork someplace where it surely doesn’t belong at all in possession of some brain dead idiot who thinks that he or she can steal images and save them in public service and think of being safe from pissed off legal authors of those images who come after him or her with torches and firewood and some petrol?
WRONG!
Indeed every art thief would truly deserve torch, firewood and petrol if you ask my opinion or anyone else’s who’s artwork has been stolen in some point of life or being constantly stolen and ripped off by idiots like one Risanna character.
Then there are these some who thinks that it is ok to keep those clearly stolen images at image sharing service since the source where those images can be used is impossible. The tracking down sites where those images are might be impossible but since the user who posesses those artwork is clearly pointed out as an art thief who is having lot of variable image material which some file names contain by somebody else. After asking out some cases, yep, lot of furious artists around.
Thing would be other if that person who stole the images would have asked permission from all the artists and explain where and what he or she is going to do with those images. Including asking permission in case and plans of editing images. Editing existing artwork and then publishing it under own nickname without credits or anything is ripping off the original artwork. >.<’
Photobucket offers actually very easy way for art thiefs to keep their stolen artwork galleries there and thanks to their crappy customer service and contact system policy it is like they don’t actually want anybody to complain about stolen artwork or violating material in their service. O.O’
So, Starscream17, an art thief lurking in photobucket, is actually asking war and she or he will gonna get one. And so will everybody else. Let’s see what they are going to think about disabling of downloading or gigantic watermark in the artwork. >’)
Some idiots just seem to think that if somebody submits artwork on the internet it is free to take. So very wrong those brain dead foes are there. This also includes fanart, fanfiction and photos. Also ideas seen in fanfiction and fiction and characters. Of course persons who rip off artwork like that then later come and cry with their apologies that they didn’t meant to do it like that and lot of other crap. They aren’t really sorry, they just wait for another chance and there we go again, same old song starts to play again when they are caught. Or after one account gotten banned, they’ll instantly create another and crawl back to continue their ways. I dunno about you but I see there’s plenty of bugs to squish but I don’t have the poison or the mallet big enough for them to for the final execution.
My plans are to smoke the bugger out behind Starscream17 nickname because I am pretty sure that she or he is at the bmfm related forums. <.<’ Really, what would be more working than sending complains right to the person responsible of the problem and letting that person hear all about the problem that that bastard has caused. And maybe then marketing the information gotten to the others who have also gotten hurt… x’) Yes, indeed, the ultimate revenge of never steal artworks ever again if e-mail all the sudden gets booked of emails about how rude it is to steal artwork. After all those images are still published under person who has just copied them elsewhere. Nobody really likes art thieves and once gotten blown off the cover they are very much in trouble, yes?
So, what I know about this Starscream17 person, idiot is most likely he after all, but I am not so sure about that… Though some of those anime images give a away that the target might be male. But is is not B/W world anymore, actually it has never been but most of the narrow minded ones have just made people to believe it is. On with the analysis, he might be into yuri and hentai. Though I think that those images are the closes he’ll get with those two topics anyway. He likes Streetfighter, DragonBall and Biker Mice and his favorite BMFM character is Vinnie. Since he likes Dragonball he also must be a teenager… No offence. <.<’ His favorite characters might be Goku, Vegeta and Cell by the amount of images that he has stolen to his photobucket account…
If he is teenager he is one of those ad/hd teenagers with serious attitude problem who think ‘whatever’ to any accuse they’ll get. He isn’t smart though since he cannot just link the cool images anywhere or credit anyone who’s artwork he’s stolen. He might be stupid enough to think that he isn’t doing anything wrong there…. >.<’ And the most he is insane to keep those images online in the internet where everyone can go easily and report him way. x’D
And no, yet I haven’t asked anything about my cards though I got 17 Star card for people to avoid selection few days back. Quite nice coincide I must say…
So, art thief hunt has began. Wish me luck with this one. This Star’s is gonna fall down.
~Uku