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10 years ago
Hello people,
I greet you from my new home at Mexico accompanied by my mate Breise. All has been going good and it seems everything will be fine in my future as well.
Well, I wanted to talk about my actual situation but some days ago I learnt about (like everyone else) IMVU’s buy on Furaffinity. This is something that is causing commotion to more than half of FA users and could affect artists badly.
I am no the type of paranoid or conspiracy person but “selling whole Furaffinity” to a company that supposedly only wants to put advertisings and “give economic aid” is totally a lie. IMVU is a company (and like others in general) that seeks economic benefits and that is exactly what Furrafinity doesn’t need (and maybe even can’t do). Since the past Furrafinity was corrupt, thanks to Dragoneer and other people in the administration, but it also was kind of an “island”. I want to say that Furaffinity was no perfect, but it was part OF EVERYONE OF US because it was remote and independent, it was our chaos, our problems and well, it was a place where no company could meddle (although I have been a lot of time outside from it I keep visiting it and I sum up as part of the community in a situation like this).
Now it is not only more corrupt than before but now it is owned by the worst part of the internet which are those social network companies than only seek benefits no matter what. And this means that it FA does not deliver economic benefits (or any benefit at all) to the new owner we should prepare for aggressive changes and/or the closing of FA.
IMVU is a company that sells virtual objects and that includes the art of many people. When a company wants a good, like Furaffinity in this case, the good to buy happens to be now property of the buyer and that includes the content. Of course, FA’s policies says that art is protected, but those policies are now part of IMVU’s properties.
I viewed FA’s future as blurry and uncertain because of the corrupt administration. But now I am 100% sure that not only it will have a blurry future but also full of suffering for those that want to maintain intact their intellectual properties.
I am not the type of guy that sells his art or put limitations on it, but I don’t want to see my drawings being sold without my permission by a company like IMVU. There have been cases where IMVU users stealing other artists’ works and selling them in the site. Heck you can even see in the post about the notice and check several links that show people doing that in IMVU in the comments.
I defend my intellectual property as public that means that I have published my art with the best quality as possible with no limitations (free) for everyone and I don’t want it sold illegally. I don’t make money with my art and I would want anything but a company making that for itself!
In the past I hoped to get to Mexico and then wait for FA’s new interface in order to “reboot” my activity in FA. But I have not seen something really new with the addition of learning about this corrupt selling movement.
And, in the case the worst doesn’t happen, I feel that IMVU’s intervention in FA could lead FA to turn into a social network, thing that is exactly what FA doesn’t need since the original idea was to be a gallery. Suddenly society triumphs against the artist, the one who shouts louder will be the popular and not the artist…well that happens now already and even before FA…you know where the art buyer with pony aspects wins in support when compared to the artist.
If FA doesn’t clear up its situation or if I, in my investigation about this, don’t reach a positive conclusion about FA’s sell I will be obliged not only leaving FA for good but also obliged to remove my art because of the terror it causes me to see my art being sold.
I’m sorry guys, I know some of you hoped me to come back and even I started to have the pleasant idea of returning and start publishing again but all this revolution in FA is touching very important subjects and I don’t want to see my art being sold by a company or third party without my permission.
Be thankful to Dragoneer because of his 100% unethical movement and put in a harsh situation the few artists FA still has along with the community of users, because he is treating them like a herd.
Please put your opinions with freedom, if someone has real facts about the situation (moving aside from the official administration post, which I don’t believe at all) please give post them and share them.
For the moment being I will not make any movement to abandon or remove my gallery, if someone want to continue seeing my art download it in the case that if things get ugly and I end erasing all my work.
Greetings and take care.
I greet you from my new home at Mexico accompanied by my mate Breise. All has been going good and it seems everything will be fine in my future as well.
Well, I wanted to talk about my actual situation but some days ago I learnt about (like everyone else) IMVU’s buy on Furaffinity. This is something that is causing commotion to more than half of FA users and could affect artists badly.
I am no the type of paranoid or conspiracy person but “selling whole Furaffinity” to a company that supposedly only wants to put advertisings and “give economic aid” is totally a lie. IMVU is a company (and like others in general) that seeks economic benefits and that is exactly what Furrafinity doesn’t need (and maybe even can’t do). Since the past Furrafinity was corrupt, thanks to Dragoneer and other people in the administration, but it also was kind of an “island”. I want to say that Furaffinity was no perfect, but it was part OF EVERYONE OF US because it was remote and independent, it was our chaos, our problems and well, it was a place where no company could meddle (although I have been a lot of time outside from it I keep visiting it and I sum up as part of the community in a situation like this).
Now it is not only more corrupt than before but now it is owned by the worst part of the internet which are those social network companies than only seek benefits no matter what. And this means that it FA does not deliver economic benefits (or any benefit at all) to the new owner we should prepare for aggressive changes and/or the closing of FA.
IMVU is a company that sells virtual objects and that includes the art of many people. When a company wants a good, like Furaffinity in this case, the good to buy happens to be now property of the buyer and that includes the content. Of course, FA’s policies says that art is protected, but those policies are now part of IMVU’s properties.
I viewed FA’s future as blurry and uncertain because of the corrupt administration. But now I am 100% sure that not only it will have a blurry future but also full of suffering for those that want to maintain intact their intellectual properties.
I am not the type of guy that sells his art or put limitations on it, but I don’t want to see my drawings being sold without my permission by a company like IMVU. There have been cases where IMVU users stealing other artists’ works and selling them in the site. Heck you can even see in the post about the notice and check several links that show people doing that in IMVU in the comments.
I defend my intellectual property as public that means that I have published my art with the best quality as possible with no limitations (free) for everyone and I don’t want it sold illegally. I don’t make money with my art and I would want anything but a company making that for itself!
In the past I hoped to get to Mexico and then wait for FA’s new interface in order to “reboot” my activity in FA. But I have not seen something really new with the addition of learning about this corrupt selling movement.
And, in the case the worst doesn’t happen, I feel that IMVU’s intervention in FA could lead FA to turn into a social network, thing that is exactly what FA doesn’t need since the original idea was to be a gallery. Suddenly society triumphs against the artist, the one who shouts louder will be the popular and not the artist…well that happens now already and even before FA…you know where the art buyer with pony aspects wins in support when compared to the artist.
If FA doesn’t clear up its situation or if I, in my investigation about this, don’t reach a positive conclusion about FA’s sell I will be obliged not only leaving FA for good but also obliged to remove my art because of the terror it causes me to see my art being sold.
I’m sorry guys, I know some of you hoped me to come back and even I started to have the pleasant idea of returning and start publishing again but all this revolution in FA is touching very important subjects and I don’t want to see my art being sold by a company or third party without my permission.
Be thankful to Dragoneer because of his 100% unethical movement and put in a harsh situation the few artists FA still has along with the community of users, because he is treating them like a herd.
Please put your opinions with freedom, if someone has real facts about the situation (moving aside from the official administration post, which I don’t believe at all) please give post them and share them.
For the moment being I will not make any movement to abandon or remove my gallery, if someone want to continue seeing my art download it in the case that if things get ugly and I end erasing all my work.
Greetings and take care.
While i'm kinda of an oddball on this site, i came here looking for an "alternative" pool of opinions (that is, at least SOME opinions, since i receive almost none if any anyway).
I've posted some stuff, and while it's very little compared to what i've made overall, it still managed to handle better than my whole gallery on DA (and that's to say A LOT).
This whole IMVU business... i dunno, as i said i'm out-the-loop when it comes to the general public on FA.
IMVU is... how can i say... "not within FA's intended scope"? Or perhaps is better to say it's the other way around.
One can just hope it ends in a Google-YT kind of situation, where nothing really changes in the long term, and nothing is to be pretended to be changed for the sake of what's intelligent in our universe.