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If you put it on the Web : A reality check - Volume 3
7 years ago
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If you put something on the web, be it an image you drew, a piece of music you composed, a game you made... be prepared for it to be leaked, cracked, edited, uncensored, recolored, used for tacky RPs, altered, ported, tinkered with, re-rigged, retextured, retopo'd, decompiled, recompiled, remixed, nightcored, reuploaded, redistributed, archived, regardless of permissions, copyrights, DRMs and paywalls.
The internet is a meat grinder on a timer. You can only delay it so much before it grabs a hold of your work and turn it into a fine paste of WTF.
6AM thoughts. Good night everyone.
The internet is a meat grinder on a timer. You can only delay it so much before it grabs a hold of your work and turn it into a fine paste of WTF.
6AM thoughts. Good night everyone.
I remember when it was considered just a cheap parody instead of becoming a genre of its own.
But even then, very little you can do in most cases, and we've all got better things to do than scan the whole interweb for our content.
Also, the meat grinder analogy is more akin to a rock crusher. It gives little fucks about steel donuts :P
Small parenthesis on paywalls : they are flawed systems. You can either abuse it outright like Patreon before the CUF thing rolled around, or even if your system is perfect, all it takes is one person to spend cash and leak it all for everyone else. Good luck trying to figure out who the black sheep is then.
Of course artists can go overboard and use hidden data inside their work to track down the leaker and kick them out of the flock, but their public image takes a hit as a result AND it incentivize people to try and leak their stuff even more or it isolates them completely in their bunker bubble and people lost interest looking over patreon-logo-censored versions of lewd stuff.
It's their livelihood and they have every right to secure it, but then they appear as paranoids who spend more time trying to catch people than doing actual art.
I think Argento has the right idea, making physical goodies from his art. As much as technology is advancing, you still cannot download a mousepad :P
Still, I think the whole Patreon thing is a great thing for artists as long as they don't put everything on one horse alone, which you should never do. It should be one of your income sources, not the only one. Personally I also thought about getting into Patreon once I got into the groove again but rather as tipjar. Posting my stuff to FA and if people like it enough they can tip me some which would help me a ton but at the same time people who don't have the dosh can still enjoy it. Might spice it up with some wallpapers or just higher rez versions of the stuff freely available on FA but no hard paywalling since that just causes more anger among your fans than money in your pocket (at least that's my -probably naive- view on it).
Also, fuck mousepads.. I'd love to download a car, lmao
The small window makes it easier to wait and keeps the artist active, having to come out with new content every week. Some artists take longer, but generally it's because it's higher quality work and they get more patrons to offset the empty weeks, at least that's how I see things.