I hope this is alright to post here - if not, I humbly apologize in advance.
WARNING! Site contains adult images - please do not click the link if you're under the legal age of consent to view such content.
http://www.aerisdies.com/g
I had been directed to this site when someone informed me some of my artwork was being redistributed there (I'm the sort who has no problem with people posting my artwork elsewhere online - so long as consent was sought for first - in which in this case, it hadn't been).
I found some of my own pieces there (some furry, some fanarts), but recognized a number of other (furry) artists as well (such as Max Black Rabbit, Terry Smith, Malachi, to name a few).
Now, I'm not sure if they had given consent to have their artwork posted on the site, but contacted a few of them to be safe. Though I recognize other artists there, I have no idea how to contact them.
If anyone recognizes some of these other artists, please drop them a line and inform them of the site to play it safe. I'm not sure how the other artists feel abut their work being redistributed, but speaking for myself, I'm not a fan of having my works reposted (especially when the pieces have a disclaimer on them stating as such).
WARNING! Site contains adult images - please do not click the link if you're under the legal age of consent to view such content.
http://www.aerisdies.com/g
I had been directed to this site when someone informed me some of my artwork was being redistributed there (I'm the sort who has no problem with people posting my artwork elsewhere online - so long as consent was sought for first - in which in this case, it hadn't been).
I found some of my own pieces there (some furry, some fanarts), but recognized a number of other (furry) artists as well (such as Max Black Rabbit, Terry Smith, Malachi, to name a few).
Now, I'm not sure if they had given consent to have their artwork posted on the site, but contacted a few of them to be safe. Though I recognize other artists there, I have no idea how to contact them.
If anyone recognizes some of these other artists, please drop them a line and inform them of the site to play it safe. I'm not sure how the other artists feel abut their work being redistributed, but speaking for myself, I'm not a fan of having my works reposted (especially when the pieces have a disclaimer on them stating as such).
Do NOT repost your old bewares. They are being archived.
https://artistsbeware.info/
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Harmless?
It's illegal redistribution and un-attributed at that. Even if these picture have not come from pay sites for each unknown artwork that is viewed and loved? The artist of it loses a potential customer/fan or more due to the inability for many people to find out who created the work.
Hardly harmless.
All of the images from pay-sites are old enough to have travelled around the internet three times, and probably have. To be honest, the only paysite I think is actually worth the money would be Club Stripes. They've got a lot of great artists on board, the art is great and there's a lot of variety, but right now they're just barely over that hurdle. All of the other sites give me little to no reason to subscribe to them.
They often do and usually what happens is someone decides it's "ruining" the image and edits it out or compresses it's so badly that it's unreadable.
Theft is NOT free advertising.
Just because you don't like the other paysites doesn't give you the right to dismiss the theft as "harmless".
...you're kidding, right?
The quality of the images doesn't matter - sub par work or grand masterpieces, redistributing the artwork without the original artist's consent(especially when there's a disclaimer on the image itself stating as such - and there are many in this case) is thievery.
There is no excuse to validate the action.
And as one of the artists who's work was redistributed on this site, I can say that if I want to advertise my work, I prefer do so myself by posting the images on boards/galleries that will allow for it or permit my clients to do so at their discretion (since they paid for the original pieces in the first place).
The main problem I have is with the entire artist's consent thing. Unless the pics are either 1.) private or 2.) for profit, then I don't really see the problem with posting pics up on imageboards or whatever if the pics were originally on a gallery site or something. It's obvious that your art is good enough for people to want to share, right? Then if you're not making money off of the pics, then why are you so aggravated about it? Just point the people back to your site, and who knows. That might stir up a commissioner or two. 90% of the artists I like I found out about on imageboards. I even commissioned one for $100.
In total, I've found about 4 of my own (one fanart, three furry images) and when I looked to contact the site owner to have them removed, I could find no contact email.
Unless I missed it somewhere.