When people write

PLEASE DO NOT STEAL, REDISTRIBUTE, EDIT, OR POST WITHOUT PERMISSION


Seriously, I believe in the rule that once it's on the Internet, its free game.

In all honesty, too, a lot artists really SHOULD NOT post that on there. Because:
1.) It's gonna get reposted. (that means you did a good job drawing your furry whatever)
2.) Your art's probably not that good to begin with so you shouldn't be all protective about your furry porn
3.) if it's edited, hell, you're promoting creativity within other people, and that means your art has prompted some sort of response from people.

Best way to prevent this, watermark or label ya images. But don't ruin it either.

I think the successful artist is one who's penmanship is well recognized; and really, when your art can be clearly recognized, is it really thievery and a crime when it's seen somewhere else and someone goes, "Oh, that's "INSTERNAMEHERE"'s art?

This is just my opinion, anyway.


Now, I have a whole different matter for tracing, which is a form of thievery UNLESS it's stated where the source of the original image is from. Once the Tracer DOES NOT GIVE the original artist credit, yea, time to go all out on the tracer and take him/her down. If you're a tracer, please, give credit to the original artist, and please, start growing some balls, learn, and start drawing your own stuff.

I just had to say it. Browsing some images here and always reading, "DONT STEAL" or "DONT DISTRIBUTE" always bothered me.