Should we defend what is our's? Yes, I believe we should.īut people will find ways to take what isn't there's. This is the price all of us artists pay when we choose to make a living off of this. Selling them off to make a buck.Įven if you try to reason with them, it's fall's of deaf ears and will turn the table on you to make it seem your labeling them unfairly. People will try to justify their reasoning as to why they steal from you and many other's.
People will find ways to take what isn't their's. Nothing is 100% sound when it comes to the net. While I completely understand why this would be upsetting to you and many of us artists and agree that it's not fair on any level for these thieves to take work that isn't their's and sell it off as their own, it's going to happen. If you like a creator’s work, you need to support them, if not by buying their work, then by not supporting or contributing to websites that steal it. Because my sense of what is fair, what is right and what is wrong, just does not allow me to adopt that mindset. If you’re not angered by the concept of another person’s work being taken without there permission, and used by another to generate ad revenue or as an excuse to ask for donations that line their pockets, I’d really like to know why. As is the fact they would rather give money to those who run the offending websites than the creators of the material they’re ripping off. The mental gymnastics people perform to justify why it’s OK to undermine the attempts of others to make a living is…. There are a lot of very helpful people who point me toward these websites, and I read the comments that get posted on them. All I can do is make a list, Arya Stark style, and hope that at some stage in the future I gain access to such means. I have neither the technical nor legal apparatus to prevent it. There’s absolutely nothing I can do to stop it. Even my Patreon page is scraped wholesale, now, with anything I post there – and even the comments legitimate patrons leave – appearing on mirror pages that anyone can view for free. What I never expected was that huge archives of my content would be collated, or how damaging to my endeavours those archives would be. It’s the fate of all digital content: once you put it out there, it’s gone. When I started up The Apsara Portfolio, I knew that the comics I posted there would eventually find their way onto forums and image boards outside my control. I’d always hoped I gave enough away for free, via my website and DeviantArt, to win enough favour so that people wouldn’t mess with my revenue stream.
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