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WTF?!?!?!?

Journal Entry: Fri May 16, 2008, 11:56 PM

Hey everybody guess what?

Well let me tell you.
So today i found out that a WHOLE lot of Russian sites (like our yahoo and flickr) are stealing ALL of my photos in massive massive numbers.
here are just Some

[link] | [link] | [link] | [link] | [link] | [link] | [link] | [link] | [link] | [link] | [link]

and those are just SOME of the sites. There are millions more, and also guess what? You can download the whole .RAR pack of my photos.

And this is just the beginning, the things people say there... its like WOW. They Critisise my photos for being to "cute and all water flower power petal &*%$" and other things like that. To me it doesnt make sense at all because i mean... if you steal photos, post them under your name like you own them, dont tell me, put YOUR own copyright on them (yeah some did that) and then try and critisise me about how shity my works are.... seriously... like WTF.

The worst of the worst is.. its a Russian *HUGE* company, and you cant do squade about it. They dont care about what you think, they just want to get traffic and more addvertising for their lovey dovey site.
I mean... people just think they can get away with anything so they do whatever they want.. and the truth is.. they can get away with it.

Because what are you going to do about it?
Call the special Internet Police, and arrest them? no
Go to a court house, and try and sue the bastards... no, no one gives a crap.
Send them a threatning letter, and acuse them of stealing Copyrighted material.. well.. yeah not much will happen because they simply dont care!

Oh my... i just dont know what to do anymore. I mean i dont know what to do about DeviantArt in general. Because if you think of it, DeviantArt is just a HUGE AND MASSIVE site with free photos for people who do nothing with their miningless lives but search the internet 24/7 to find something to steal. And they do steal more than 90% of all photos stolen around the net from DeviantArt, simply b/c the photos here are proffesional and... amazing.

And these are just Russian sites... think of all those Arabian sites that you cant read shit of off, and other Chinese/Korean sites.. they all steal... and you just drive your self insane while thinking of what to do next lol.

What do you guys think? I mean should I ::
  • Me all my photos way small

  • Add bigger watermarks

  • Just take all my photos of!

  • Make them into a Flash file, so you cant right click?

  • What other options do I have?


Anyway... whatever i do... i'll do it. If i have to make the photos so small you can barely make out a picture and make the (C) almost 90% of the photo.... sure as hell i'll do, im just Sooo tierd of all this!!!! :pissed:

lol. Sorry guys for just like going insane on you, me and my family are all very frustrated and dont know what to do.

Any suggestions??????????

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*thesynchronicitygrid:iconthesynchronicitygrid: May 17, 2008, 12:04:25 AM
i had someone come into my gallery recently and :+fav: every single one of my photos, i wonder if this is why!

if you can hire a lawyer, i say don't give up.

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=onixa:icononixa: May 17, 2008, 12:08:51 AM
yeah... I dont know though.. i mean its a Russian Federation comapy and its huge... i dont think we (USA) can do much. I mean im just not sure we have any abilities on sueing a company from another country.

But yes.. i guess i can try something :)

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*thesynchronicitygrid:iconthesynchronicitygrid: May 17, 2008, 12:11:16 AM
girl, every single one of those companies and websites is a law suit ready to happen. what is DA willing to do about this?

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~AniMal-e:iconAniMal-e: May 17, 2008, 12:16:55 AM
how have you found out about these sites?

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=evile33:iconevile33: May 17, 2008, 12:18:03 AM
I am really sorry to hear this is happening to you sweetie :petting: It's not just deviantART that images seem ripe for the stealing....anywhere you post images, there are always assholes that will steal. I have had images stolen from me on Flickr, Myspace, MyOpera, and my old Shutterfreaks.com gallery. It's a no win situation:cries:

Pretty damn rude for someone to steal your work and then to criticize it........actually that's just way beyond rude:shakefist:

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=onixa:icononixa: May 17, 2008, 12:21:07 AM
lol. yeah i mean i knew from day 1 that the moment i post my photos they will be public domain.. but hell what are you going to do? just keep making photos and keeping them on your hard drive lol.

Anyway thanks dear.. i really dont want to seem whiny about this or anything, just want some help about what i should do :) what do you think?

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=onixa:icononixa: May 17, 2008, 12:22:01 AM
My aunt was looking for my site, and she found others. Then my father told me, and well.. i kept on searching, and found over 10-15 sites. :(

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~JadeIshTehRingLeader:iconJadeIshTehRingLeader: May 17, 2008, 12:24:02 AM
I completely agree with this lady here. It would be different if it were one picture and a small impact but this ALL of your work. YOUR work that YOU have all rights to. If they are making money on your work, you have the right to take it from them and shut them down. It's your responsibility to yourself and everyone else who is being stolen from.

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=onixa:icononixa: May 17, 2008, 12:31:43 AM
haha well put lol. yeah, they all are. I mean i am just this one person, there are like tons and tons of other DA pplz photos on those sites.

DA? I dont know.. i mean what can they do?

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=evile33:iconevile33: May 17, 2008, 12:33:12 AM
You aren't whiny at all hon ;) It's very disheartening to say the least. We bust our butts to produce beautiful images and it's painful to see people steal them and give them away or sell them as if it were their own :(

If only I knew Russian :cries: I would send off copyright violation reports to the site administrators, but I don't know how much good that would do :(

I know DA can't do anything about it, their liability is limited, we all agree to that when we click the submission agreement.
The wonderful world of the web has posed a lot of grey areas when it comes to laws, and I really think things need to drastically change, It will take a lot of time for that to happen though.

I have no idea WHY people think that since it is on the internet, that everything they see is free.

I hope there is a solution for you, and that you can have your images removed from those sites :hug:

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