emeralddarkness

Always a great day to wake up and smell the art theft in the morning. Especially when you find yourself accused of being the thief. Guys, there is nothing to be gained from stealing art either by tracing, manipulating, or just straight up reuploading and pretending its yours. These things will not help you improve as an artist, moreover it's wrong and frequently pisses a lot of people off so unless you're trying for the sort of notoriety that everyone yelling at you and putting you on long lists of people stealing crap, stop it. Stop it, okay? It sucks, it hurts ALL PARTIES INVOLVED, it's selfish and mean-spirited and is spitting in the face

Hey everybody, remember SOPA and PIPA, and how hard we smashed them down? Well guess what? There's another very similar thing going down right now - only it's a trade agreement, and goes by the acronym of ACTA. And it could be described as SOPA and PIPA's evil big brother... for one, it is international. It's not quite the same, but it feels eerily similar and it could seriously violate privacy and be worldwide. Here's a news article with some information on it and boy does it sound bad. Here is a US exclusive petition to the white house, and here are two international petitions for all of you who are not US-based to kill it dead. Let's ge

If somehow you haven't heard of SOPA or PIPA yet, go look them up. They are bad news. I'm joining a good bit of the rest of the internet in protest today, Jan 18, and blacking out my journal. Later, guys. You can get the journal skin :thumb279877308: here and learn more about the blackout :thumb279725047: here. A video with a lot of good information can be found here.