DarkElegance opened this issue on Jul 22, 2003 ยท 60 posts
maclean posted Sat, 26 July 2003 at 9:46 AM
ShadowWind, I agree with your main point that there's no need to turn this into a witch-hunt. But there's another side to consider here. There's a big difference between 'art lovers who liked an image and want to share it' and people who d/l an image and put it up on their site under their name, claiming it as their own work. I'm sure you wouldn't offer to send your images to people who were doing that. I don't think the idea here is to hunt people down and drag them through the mud, but to have some sort of empowerment for the artists who are seeing their work stolen. Note the word 'stolen'. And again, you're only talking about images. When it comes to pirated products, it's a whole different ballgame. There are real financial losses for the merchants involved in that side of it. The way I see it, one thing that could be done that might be helpful would be to have some kind of central group or addy where people could report theft. At the moment, what do people do when they see stolen art? At best, they post in the forum. At worst, they don't know what to do, so they ignore it. That's bad. mac