New "free art" website

[shirikdraguinea.livejournal.com]

IMPORTANT EDIT
Just had this comment via FA from one of my watchers:
Major alert - shortly after following that link, my google account has been hijacked and has been mass spammng. I have d/c'ed from the internet (using phone atm), and am virus scanning. Be VERY careful, or avoid altogether.
If anyone thinks they got something nasty I'm really sorry - try running HouseCall ( http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ ) - its an online based virus scanner so it can't be affected by anything on your system. I had no negative consequences from visiting this website but some others have - if you have been affected I am incredibly sorry :(


A friend of mine recently alerted me to yet another art theft rich art site - Never To Much Yiff. You can see it advertised at the owners FurAffinity page and he states:

"You can download and archive of 11,745 sorted by artist. I am not selling it is free to download so enjoy and please donate 2$ every 5$ goes to animal shelter of my choice"
(I took some liberty with this quote... the typos on the picture made me cry).

So in a nutshell, this person Techie9098 is putting up work by other artists without permission, and charging "donation" for them. I haven't checked the artists affected by this though as it requires downloading a torrent with all of these files.

Just a heads up for people.

EDIT:

His main page has been replaced by a Caramelldansen video but the download link remains and the torrent is still on pirate bay.

Comments

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

So let me get this straight; you labour for hours to produce a piece of artwork to share with the world, and just because you haven't elected to sell it yourself, you'd be fine with someone else taking that piece of art, and profiting (possibly significantly) off your hours of labour? (And that's ignoring all the supplies you've used to create it.)

[animehoneybee.livejournal.com]

It's not that I'm saying its good or its okay to do that, im just saying that if I was never going to profit, then I'm not loosing profit when someone else does it. Is that not sound logic? Sure there may be other factors that make that behaviour wrong, but it's not enough to just say something is wrong without thinking about WHY. I hope that's understandable.

[glowstick-juice.livejournal.com]

I don't plan on selling my car, but that doesn't mean it's okay for you to steal it.
"Oh, but Officer, she wasn't trying to make any profit off the car so what did I do wrong?"

[animehoneybee.livejournal.com]

That would be true, if one could compare intellectual to tangible property in that way. If you have a car that can be made into an unlimited number of copies, could you still make the argument that you were missing something if one was taken? That's kind of the crux of what I'm getting at here. I apologize if I've come off soundly badly. I don't think people should do things to harm others, or their ability to produce artwork, but when a behaviour falls outside of causing harm, I think it's good to question what should be done.