bastards >.<

You could always try reporting them to Hentaikey who actually pays them the profit in hopes they might take action.

Tried that.

Log below:

Anonymou S. Fapper: How would I go about reporting one of your affiliate sites for redistributing material that is not only *not* theirs, but the image itself explicitly states that it should not be redistributed?

You are now speaking with Kevin of supervisor.

Kevin: greetings

Anonymou S. Fapper: Good afternoon.

Kevin: are you 18?

Anonymou S. Fapper: I'm 24, actually.

Kevin: thank you, have to ask

Kevin: can you give me the URL of the image in question?

Anonymou S. Fapper: http://www.hentaipalm.com/galleries.....llery/id/81720 -- there are eight images on this page that belong to Sexyfur.com, and contain the Do not Redist. message.

Anonymou S. Fapper: I haven't finished digging through, but most of the images there are guaranteed to not belong to them.

Kevin: one moment

Anonymou S. Fapper: http://www.hentaipalm.com/galleries.....llery/id/81672 - this gallery is almost exclusively Doug Winger's artwork.

Kevin: ok, i see what you mean

Kevin: however, anyone can put a watermark on an image

Kevin: are you the webmaster of sexyfur?

Anonymou S. Fapper: No, former member of said website, actually.

Kevin: gotcha

Anonymou S. Fapper: Hence the instant recognition.

Kevin: do you happen to have any form of contact information for the webmaster?

Anonymou S. Fapper: "All questions, complaints, or notices to SexyFur or Monitor Studios LLC by means of electronic message must be sent to admin@sexyfur.com.
"

Kevin: yes, however, those types of email addresses are seldom checked

Kevin: i'll give it a shot

Anonymou S. Fapper: Bernal is a DMCA-whore. Pretty guaranteed that he'll check it if he knows his stuff is up there.

Kevin: lol, fair enough

Kevin: i'm guessing that bernal is the webmaster?

Anonymou S. Fapper: He runs the place, and much of the stuff I've pointed out belongs to him. The Winger stuff is another issue, but I don't have enough to work with on that.

Kevin: gotcha

Kevin: you see, the reason i'm a bit leary of this, is that I happen to know the webmaster in question on our end

Kevin: he's a rather accomplished artist in his own right, and if i recall correctly, i believe he told me that he knows teh artist that drew them

Anonymou S. Fapper: Well, if the webmaster actually has full, warranted permission, then I apologize in advance. However, I can only go with what I see, and what I see is a mass of furry art, oekaki drawings, etc., all from various artists, and all apparently unattributed to their actual sources.

Anonymou S. Fapper: (ie: a porn dump.)

Kevin: agreed, however, there is no need for apologies =-)

Kevin: I do appreciate the notification, and will try to contact him immediately

Anonymou S. Fapper: Arright. Thanks very much for your time, then. :)

Kevin: you're very welcome =_)

I somehow doubt that he's going to accomplish anything. Just a hunch.

Yeah, I know that it's fairly pointless, since the whole thing already boiled down to "We'll keep paying this guy, and act like we're checking into it, now piss off, if you please."

I just had nothing better that I could do.
I can't just lead a boycott of a site I just heard of -- wouldn't really work.

So yeah.

This is the reason I dislike hentai key type places. I don't care if they distribute artwork and hentai movies and stuff like that, but making money off of other people's hard work pisses me off. And it's not just the furry artist they are ripping off. I've seen artwork by 'normal' hentai artist such as Hanaduka being ripped off. If I could speak Japanese I'd email him and any other artist I happen to recognize about this.

Sadly though, I don't think there is a lot anyone can do. Hentaipalm has been up for a long time, and I don't think they're going down any time soon.

I don't think too many people even use hentaikey, especially when they could get art from anywhere else for free. ...probably less than the amount who actually started paying for mp3s once companies started selling songs. But I definately agree, you can't just take someone's pictures and try to sell them, especially without even asking them.