Re: Discussion Topic 3: Avatar "Theft"

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: : : What are your views on sites that take other peoples avatars and post : : : them as their own, or setup a frames based site to steal your framed : : : avatar pages inside their own site ? : : : What action should the guild take against these sites ? : : : Should the guild approach the site first or the individual who made : : : the avatars ? : : : Is the black list worthwhile ? : : : Your views please : : First it takes the traffic away from a smaller site if : : someone like the avatar mall sets up using all our hard : : work as the basis for their site. : : Second oddly enough it tends to glut the av market with : : the same type av rather then a wider range of choice. : : Because.....they choice which of YOUR avs they want. : : I really dont know what you can do Devlin. The only effective : : action i can see is change the url to give them dead links but : : many of you have so many people who have linked to your sites. : : I was careful to keep my urls the same for that reason. : : There must be some action taken. Shelion is right they cant be : : allowed to get away with it.The thing is the guild blackballing : : wont change it...need a way to notify vp users and ask that they use : : the owner sites instead. : : I see alot of mine and more then a few from other member sites being : : recropped. Thing is mine still have my file name.gif on them...lol. : : Some are not changed at all. I hope there is a way to stop them its : : hard to see your work sitting on someone elses site. By the way thanks : : for all you very hard work.....cyn : I have put in hundreds of hours work on my site at least half of those : has been in searching for and scanning images. I am constatantly looking for new ideas for avatars : was I tempted to save time by grabbing somebody elses? : of course but who can take pride in their site if it is stolen? : maybe a suggestion should be that all members acticely watch for sites fencing (:>() avatars : and maybe put a statement on their sites as to the fact that theives will be blacklisted and give a link to : the guilds blacklist page thereby spreading the word who these offenders are

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