Remember this journal? https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10056434/

Yeeeah we're back at it again, again I'm trying to report stolen art (not from me) and once again it's just going nowhere with the staff. So much for the staff trying to enforce the "you aren't allowed to upload stuff that isn't by you or for you, or you otherwise have permission to post" rule. It seems to be free game as long as the original artist doesn't catch you, even if it's veeery obvious to everyone else. Guess we could all just upload Mona Lisa no problem, for example. Just make sure to give a source to the original and it's aaall good, it's not like whoever owns the rights will be reporting about it!

Trieeed to note Dragoneer to just deal with it before I found out they aren't doing too hot (all the best to him, hoping he recovers soon), I know he would've dealt with this without any useless slowdowns.



Edit for further context:
Trying to report someone who steals art, got this as a response:

"Please keep in mind that Fur Affinity does not accept third-party reports in the case of permissions, and we encourage the artists to submit a ticket for their own work(s) or file a DMCA take down themselves. This is to ensure the legitimacy of the reports."

So, you know, that's fucked. What's the point of the rule anyway then?

Sooo because I'm petty and wanna show how dumb this system is, I'll prolly make an account at some point where I just post art that won't ever be reported by the original artists. Gonna find some non-english speaking artists that would struggle to report properly, or possibly artists that are minor who don't know how to fill a DMCA report, or possibly dead artists. Also gonna make sure to link to the originals, that way I won't be breaking the rule 2.5 about citing sources lmao - this way the ooonly thing that is wrong is the permission thing, and that can only be solved/reported by the original artists or rights holders.

Also for legal reasons that was a joke


Edit2:
Some artists I've contacted about the stolen art just said "I don't mind", sooo uh, yeah, the art in question ofcourse stays up in that case, whiich means that the "not for you, not by you, not having permission" rule is just useless in such cases. FA might wanna add a "but if they don't care to report, it's fine" bit in there.


Edit3:
Staff previously asked for me to show proof that the user here didn't have the permission to post art, and then removed said art once I asked the original artist (who is not on FA) and showed the response. However, the second time they said "that's not enough, the original artist needs to be the one to report" which I get, but ofcourse I was baffled by why I was even asked first time then, when what I was reporting was the same thing in both cases. When I asked about why I was asked the show proof the first time they avoided the question or purposefully misunderstood it, but then I got a "we can't discuss actions we have taken for other users" response lmao lol ok. Seems like the first decision was a mistake then, nice and inconsistent.

also, have this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy0TtFkgCPQ