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opt2not:
--- Quote from: johnrt on October 16, 2015, 02:20:22 pm ---Is that a bad thing? As long as the artwork is available here (where the hell is it btw??) the creators should be happy knowing that other people appreciate their work.
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Yes. It's a bad thing. I'm not talking about clip-art photoshopped collages, I don't care if people are sharing their project arts...a lot of these newbie requests lately have been for original cabinet artwork, which in turn could be put up on ebay for profit.
I'm all for sharing with members of "the community", but only to those who are active members. The Johnny-come-lately's who make accounts to leech original arts are only making this forum less about community and more about art piracy. Do we really want rando's coming in and leeching stuff without contributing to anything?
behrmr:
I know on all of the local (to me) Facebook groups there is at least one person that is cranking out reproduction artwork like crazy. I assume it's stuff that has been "found" or otherwise obtained from others.
johnrt:
--- Quote from: opt2not on October 16, 2015, 02:54:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: johnrt on October 16, 2015, 02:20:22 pm ---Is that a bad thing? As long as the artwork is available here (where the hell is it btw??) the creators should be happy knowing that other people appreciate their work.
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Yes. It's a bad thing. I'm not talking about clip-art photoshopped collages, I don't care if people are sharing their project arts...a lot of these newbie requests lately have been for original cabinet artwork, which in turn could be put up on ebay for profit.
I'm all for sharing with members of "the community", but only to those who are active members. The Johnny-come-lately's who make accounts to leech original arts are only making this forum less about community and more about art piracy. Do we really want rando's coming in and leeching stuff without contributing to anything?
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Anyway, there is NO WAY you can prevent that from happening. Making this a big problem will not prevent people from stealing and even claiming rights to ones artwork. And you can't close this site for new members either.
Vigo:
:dunno There might be a mod to allow a poster to assign permissions to their attachments.
opt2not:
--- Quote from: johnrt on October 16, 2015, 03:00:13 pm ---Anyway, there is NO WAY you can prevent that from happening. Making this a big problem will not prevent people from stealing and even claiming rights to ones artwork. And you can't close this site for new members either.
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Anyway, being dismissive of the problem (and I'm glad you agree it is a problem) isn't the way to go either. Obviously we don't want to close the site for new members, that's just silly. But there could be a community effort to weed out these leeches. I mean, there's some real hypocracy going on here... we're not allowed to share roms of original games, but it's ok to share original artwork? What's the difference?
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