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As some of you have probably heard from various gossip a new website has sprung up named "Wallpart" that supposedly is stealing people's artwork and selling it within the site.
I copy-pasted from a friend's journal because it's the best explanation I've seen thus far.
I copy-pasted from a friend's journal because it's the best explanation I've seen thus far.
So, I have been notified by several people about pages of Peter & Company and other pieces of my artwork being supposedly "available for sale" through Wallpart.com, and in the past 24 hours have seen many other artists make journals/submissions talking about finding their own work on there as well. Naturally, the inclination of any artist finding their work available for sale without their consent is to head to the "Report Violation" link attached to every listing and file a complaint to have it removed.
PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT DO THIS ON WALLPART.COM'S WEBSITE.
I've dug into their site code and reviewed some audits that were performed by other folks in various places online who were aware of this site's existence, and there's some very devious bait-and-switch going on. Essentially:
- They are not actually selling any of the images that appear on their site. Their "search function" is nothing but scraper software, which essentially just loads up hits from Google Images and displays them within a pre-built "shop" template based on the image's resolution. This is why every single piece on there has a title that is lifted directly from whatever gallery site (FA/DA/Weasyl) or general website was hosting it. Example: They have my title card from my Kickstarter page for the P&C pilot, with the title lifted straight off the description.
- The dependence on Google Images is also why doing a search for your own name will turn up different results each time, or possibly no results at all. Their "search" function never actually searches their own listings, because they have none. Confusingly enough, performing the same search multiple times often returns different results at different times throughout the day. I was able to find dozens of P&C pages supposedly for sale by searching my name yesterday, but today none of them show up in search results -- even though the direct links to the page forms (which I saved) still exist.
- Their "Report Violation" link is actually a 100% phishing form. If you fill it out, no matter what you put there, you will be sending them a LOT more than you anticipated. This is actually the main purpose for the site's existence -- they completely anticipate artists being upset about their work supposedly being sold, so they developed a system to exploit those who complain.
- Various pieces of malware and other malicious code have been found embedded throughout their pages at different times. This site is just bad news all around.
- The site itself is hosted in Russia, and has already swapped web hosts 4 times in the past few months. The current host is listed as ENOM, and other bloggers/artists have already sent complaints and reports to their contact page, with little luck. It looks like it's already been branded and caught in the past and is trying to keep itself alive.
- Also, for a site claiming to have "billions of images" available for print, to only have a little over 3,000 "happy customers" should be a pretty big red flag on its own.
So please -- DO NOT EVEN VISIT THIS SITE. Do not give it page views, and most absolutely DO NOT FILL OUT ANY VIOLATION FORMS, EVEN IF THE ARTWORK ON THE PAGE IS YOUR OWN. Instead, there is a Change.org petition asking for the domain to be stripped and brought down.
Please share the word around as much as possible so other artists don't potentially fall into their trap by thinking that their "Report Violation" page is actually what it claims to be. These people are pure scam artists, plain and simple. Avoid them at all costs.
Account Has Been Blanked
For personal reasons, this deviantart account has been abandoned for the past two years, and will continue to be so. All art that has been posted to this account has been put into storage and can no longer be viewed.
If you are still interested in following me, I can be found on more furry-oriented venues such as FurAffinity and SoFurry, as well as on social networking.
This account will not be deactivated as I still use it to view artwork, I just will not be posting anything new or letting people see my character artwork through it.
Good day to you all.
I have decided...
Due to the lack of interest in using this website, not to mention the fact that I have had nothing to post here for the past year, I have decided to shut down this account at the end of the year. Sorry peeps, it's been fun, but I've moved on.
Anyone still interested in continuing to follow me can do so either on Twitter or on FurAffinity. Same name as here.
Impending Art Dump
I haven't been very active here, but with me uploading some new art after FA's brief crash, figured I'd readd them here too.
Just a reminder that I've been transitioning to a new fursona, so you may be seeing less and less of Cyrus Mewtwo in the coming months, and more and more of Cyrus Lynx instead.
EDIT: I just realized I can't post any of my NSFW art on deviantart, so it's not much of an art dump. Still! New art!
Steam Controller Impressions (TLDR)
Reposting from the MNfurs forums I posted this on because I made this huge ramble at 3 am and am too lazy to rewrite it.
So I totally spaced out and forgot to post updates here, I’ve had my controller for about two weeks now thanks to being an early preorder (and brought it to the last meet to show off to my geek buddies), and here are my impressions:
•The controller feels pretty solid and is pretty comfortable despite its bizarre, concave-shaped grip wings instead of convex like traditional controllers. The angled shoulder bumpers are nicely ergonomic also.
•I may be spoiled by the Xbox One and PS4 but I wish the joystic
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