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YOU ARE KILLING THE FANDOM
16 years ago
A close friend (acquaintance) of mine has alerted me to the fact that people have been killing my art.
How have they been doing this? They've been downloading it to their personal computers, or their laptops.
I cannot BELIEVE how irresponsible this makes them, and what an insult to my talent it is that they like what I do, but want to save it and look at it later. Just because I've released something publicly for free on the internet doesn't give you a right to look at it whenever you feel like. If I get angry at a thing (or concept) one day I want to be able to take art down so that no one can ever look at it again. Not on the internet, not at a cafe. This is why I format my hard drive regularly and shred any hard copy originals.
I don't care what you people think or do, but I do care what you're going to do, and to show you how much I don't care what you think I will argue down anyone who replies to this that thinks that getting shown something gives you a right to look at it.
You people are the reason art is no longer free.
How have they been doing this? They've been downloading it to their personal computers, or their laptops.
I cannot BELIEVE how irresponsible this makes them, and what an insult to my talent it is that they like what I do, but want to save it and look at it later. Just because I've released something publicly for free on the internet doesn't give you a right to look at it whenever you feel like. If I get angry at a thing (or concept) one day I want to be able to take art down so that no one can ever look at it again. Not on the internet, not at a cafe. This is why I format my hard drive regularly and shred any hard copy originals.
I don't care what you people think or do, but I do care what you're going to do, and to show you how much I don't care what you think I will argue down anyone who replies to this that thinks that getting shown something gives you a right to look at it.
You people are the reason art is no longer free.
CHECK AND MATE
If you don't take things seriously then our very way of free thinking is at stake.
You see, on the internet anyone can freely copy anything. If I'm capable of copying something it must be right to do it. Information wants to be free, and art is information. It is morally wrong to prevent me from sharing any information with anyone I want. By locking down information you're being anti-social - is that what you want?
I've done it so many times though that I'm extremely fast at it now. Your untrained eyes might not even notice.