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Welcome to the Internet - 1

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Published: Mar 28, 2014

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This image should illustrate my journal entry here:

Welcome to the Internet. Now go home.I post stuff here, on fetlife, and on tumblr. Well, I used to - now I hardly do at all.
Not because of copyright. I understand that when you post something on the internet, you're posting it for everyone to look at, and it's going to get shared around. But the comped-up piece of shit you see above (minus my commentary) is all over the internet - it's far more widely distributed than my original version. Back when I used to read my messages here and on Fetlife, I had 12-20 messages per day about stuff like this. Mostly it was people trying to be helpful and telling me "HEY! Look over here, there's another person who smeared shit all over your art!" And it used to take me an hour every morning to cut and paste URLs into DMCA requests to get this kind of crap taken down.
But that's really only the tip of the emotional iceberg for me. About 1 in 10 times that I post a DMCA I'd get a message from the person who had posted it. So not only would my

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The Nerve! I'm sure she's really very very sorry. Oh yeah, I'm gonna use this image for stock....errrr, unless it's your art? I was kinda thinking of making it my own!!