If that search doesn’t yield a result, and you’re too sociophobic/lazy to -ask- someone who might know, find a different pic. It isn’t that hard.

I personally hate intrusive watermarks that destroy otherwise perfectly good images, so the least I can do is credit the artist. I’ve always figured this was common sense for any semi-decent human being, so I have to say that, misplaced tone or not, I’m completely with wah on this one.

@wah: Unless it gets in the way of the original image, signatures don’t count, right?

Saying that it is distracts from your valid point, which is that using someone else’s work without giving them credit for that work is rude.

“It’s matter of simply not being a total jerk.”

Imho, it’s a big jerk action to hide among wailing faggots whilst making it pretty much impossible to be reliably found by the majority of the internet.

Putting a single URL to your website on the piece of already copyright infringing (lol truth) fanart isn’t going to ruin said piece of art and will result in people being able to find and thus credit you to please your ass. Instead of putting up stupid one-sided demands whilst trying to hide on the internet is really fucking pathetic. Wouldn’t you be annoyed if you tried to buy something, but the seller put up a bunch of burning hoops for you to jump through first before you could pay?

And this is the internet for crying out loud. If you are going to put stuff you made on the internet, and want to be credited or linked to, use a Uniform Resource LOCATOR. Come half-way, make it so that the buyer only needs to walk to the cash register and tell the cashier he wants to pay.

And let us not forget, laws in the 21st century wild west, HA! Silly WAH. Japanese fans of American TV shows also pirate in abundance over the backs of American TV ripping groups.

“We’re all adults here.”

Yet you lot are crying over spilled beans. Humbleness != stupidity. Art defacing watermarks = stupidity and lack of humbleness indeed (dumb Americunts who watermark), a small link in the corner of the fanart = smart and still humble, like the tags/logo inside my Threadless shirts.

Lol, fanartists crying and putting up unreasonable demands and crying some more. Who the fuck would even ’steal’ and claim your art WAH?

i don’t use or remember using fanart on my blog or really plan to in the foreseeable future, but going through the first topic, i’m going to agree with the people who are complaining about pixiv being exclusively in japanese. if pixiv is this holy grail of fanart and proper ownership, why are they not meeting us “western human trash” in the middle by making its content available in english? if i’m going to meet their demands of politeness and all that jazz, they’re going to have to meet some of my demands which would make it a lot easier for me to meet theirs.

also, after the shitstorm from that previous post, i thought this topic was bled dry… apparently not.

Yarr matey.

WAH, for the life of me I can’t get a bead on you. It seems that you really want to help better all of this, but the methods you use and going “I don’t care what people think of me” makes me question your.. Ambition to do it? maybe even if you’re really passionate about it.
Or that could be some funny “If I say I don’t care I can brush off criticism” mechanism, there.

It seems you act like a Catalyst most of the time, bringing it up in your “trademark” way, then letting all of those interested duke it out, not personally doing much more for the cause.

But why be passionate about the cause and not try harder to make it work?
I can’t read you.
It bugs me! :(

Maybe it’s my fault for taking this too seriously, thinking there might be more meaning behind this other then trying to garner replies. But a good Movement can be brought down by a bad supporter, so I’m trying to see the opposite, I guess.

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Also, BakaRaptor,
I agree on the English-friendly Pixiv thing, but I have to say, while “Beatings work better than hugs” will get more people to pay attention, I don’t think it will get any of them to try and comply.

Crappy analogy ahead, but, It’s like shouting “ASSHOLES, !” while at the store. People will turn a head towards you, but no ones gonna give any thought to what you said while shouting if you couldn’t convey it in a decent way.

I’ve never seen someone change anything they do when they’re insulted.
In fact, it usually makes them lean even further towards doing what they were doing before, but caring even less, which in this case would lead to the Japanese hating us even more, if it’s possible. Pretty much making the “Noble Movement” that was invoked backfire.

This really brought on much more discussion about why people are acting like jerks over this, than it did bring discussion on how to better the problem, it seems..
Hell, it’s the only part of all this I even care about.
I don’t really care about the Butthurt artists if they act like dicks anymore, really, but this has lead to some fascinating blog entries and comments.