Many thanks, again, for choosing another of my fractals! Wow! What this does for my ego is indescribable!!

Maddy

I'm so amazed to have been chosen again, but especially that "Envy" was the one! LOL! I really never thought it was that good, myself! Thanks so much!

Maddy

And again!!! I can't stand it! Thank you soooo much!!!

Thank you so much for taking The Garden Path, so to speak :-) I feel very honored to be here with so many great fractal artists!

I'm feeling really dumb and rude right now. I've been looking through the FWW archives and see that there are a number of my images there and I never even knew it! Sheesh! For some reason or other, I didn't even know about the FWW.  How does one be so dumb! LOL! A very belated thank you for including those images in the FWW.  I'm speechless..........

WOW!!  Thanks so much for choosing one of mine again! This was even more of a surprise this time! To be included with the fabulous images for this week is truly an honor!

Hi Viv and Barb!

Thank you so much for choosing my image to be one of the FWW images! I'm so thrilled and flattered. You made my whole YEAR!!!

Maddy

What I don't understand about this is...if all they want to do is steal our work, why bother adding them to their favorites? To what end?

Maddy

Funny....It seems now that the site is "temporarily unavailable" to my IP address. Anyone else not able to access it?  I was looking, during my free time at work, to see if our images were being removed. Maybe we just succeeded in annoying them and they are just going to deny us access??

Maddy

Pat wrote: The poster is named Kris. Here is her web site: akakris.igumnov.com . It
is almost entirely in Russian. Email on the site is by means of a form:
http://akakris.igumnov.com/about?about_send_form=submit

On that page, the first blank is for email address. The second is for
subject, and the third is for the message. The final blank probably
wants to know how you found her, but there are a couple of words I don't
recognize. I'd leave it blank. The next item is a button for sending the
email.

The words you didn't recognize instruct the writer to enter the characters they see in the little box above that blank...I did that and in my case it was three numbers. I then hit the send button and it went. I also did not use my real email address! I really don't want mail from her or anyone associated with her. Here's what I wrote in my message: 

I and many others have seen the Fractal art and other art you have posted at Artfile. We, the original artists, are highly offended at your brazen theft of our work from Renderosity. You have been there and know that ALL work is copyrighted and may not be reproduced in any way without express permission from the artist. We demand that you remove those images from Artfile and anywhere else you may have posted them. It is offensive, unfair and illegal. If we wanted our work to be shown elsewhere we would post them ourselves! Your actions have offended us all. Is this what you hoped to achieve?

I didn't even sign it! Maybe kind of nasty, but hey!

Maddy

It looks like you have all learned about the stolen images at the Russian site. I've been taking notes all morning and I have a list of 37 Fractal artists whose work appears on that site. There are probably more that I do not recognize, but the artist's work which I did recognize was all posted by the same person. Many of the images include the title and the artist's name, but mine did not, so there may be a lot more than the 37 I found.  Attached is the list. I've posted a notice about this in my gallery also. Is there anything else I can do to help?

Maddy
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