I hate people that rip others off! What the hell can they get out of it?! Which has been a fear of mine for more than a year, I've beemna member of this site for a while and there is alot hard work put in by the artists here, and because i know how much work it takes, thats an even bigger and discouraging factor in regards to posting personal work here or anywhere else. I recently spoke with one of the very popular artist who has a gallery here about "Art Theft" I guess his advice made me feel a little better, because you can't watch everyone, but as a community we should blow the whistle whenever we see this stuff happening. My advice as well is to place your copyright/signature watermark style on your image so that it can't be cropped out. I think this may make it a bit more difficult for the crooks in our community.