
Thursday, July 26th 2007
The RATF is taking a long breather at the moment due to 3 of the Administrators dealing with life-threatening illnesses-so we need to take an extended break in order to recuperate and resume at a later date.
The RATF page is still active....so please continue your support of our project, and utilize the information contained on its pages to help your art theft issues. RATF has not forgotten about you....WE PROMISE!!! You are one of our most important concerns. Look at it this way....We had a lot, A LOT of art removed that was posted illegally. Even if we had only 1 piece of work removed....it was worth it! We currently estimate the removed artwork at around 60,000-80,000 pieces which we feel is a conservative estimate, So, that is at least 80,000 works of art thieves cannot steal. At one time we had over 100 active cases, and our Admin was constantly gathering information passing it along and posting to our page and external site. Plus we were coordinating efforts with the volunteer force and dealing with all aspects of copyright infringement to the best of our abilities.
I want to at this time encourage everyone who has had their art stolen on DA-REPORT IT TO DA. If your artwork is off-site-REPORT IT TO THE SITE ADMINISTRATOR using the copyright letter we provided and keep on them until your work is removed!
IT WAS WORTH ALL THE EFFORT OUR WONDERFUL RATF TEAM PUT INTO IT!!!!!! AS THE FOUNDER, I MUST SAY I AM PRIVILEGED TO HAVE WORKED WITH MOST OF YOU AND AM THE BETTER FOR IT. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND EFFORTS IN REPORTING, RESEARCHING, LETTER WRITING, GRAPHICS DESIGN, WEBSITE DESIGN, and UPDATING. WE APPRECIATE IT TREMENDOUSLY!!!
ONE OTHER NOTE TO THE ART THIEVES OUT THERE...WHEN I COME BACK AND AM BACK TO NORMAL.....IT WILL BE WITH BOTH BARRELS BLAZING!!!!......."IT AIN'T OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS!!!"
I personally would like to that the following individuals for their hard work and dedication and devotion to the RATF, and its principles:
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laurengary`
1arcticfox:devanjalek:
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cmptrwhz=
LonesomeFaery =
Almoace*
MouseRunner:devalbertelf:
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beigebuddha and her son Damien
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pantherwitch4982=
SethraLavode~
KainApophysis:devnoreaction:
We applaude your efforts and hours and hours of research to help stop art theft from DA members. Thank you!





We are working as hard and as fast as possible to deal with all the information coming in.
We are swamped and apologize - respond times to comments/questions may be slow.
We are not perfect
note us if there is an oversight it is not intentional.
Comments left on the RATF site by others - are THEIR opinions not necessarily ours.
We need volunteers who will uphold the volunteer code of ethics.
We WILL NOT tolerate unprofessional conduct or illegal or unorthodox methods period.
This is not a vigilante task force.
We simply want to help people with their art theft and copyright issues.
We are volunteers and do not deserve abuse, we are merely assisting you to resolve your rip issues!

NOTICE
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Devious Comments
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Lara Croft in TR Legend: "I never forget a face."
i will not stand by and let people steal art from us and put it up on photobucket. Here's how to report them:
[link]
Clearly stolen. & this user had a stolen and editted sketch before I confronted them.
Now this user is harassing me -_-;
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92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature.
She lies about who she is and when I confronted her about it she told me she had a 'joint' account and that she had to pull her work from other sites because she had moved back to the place she lived. And it I report it on here she be pulled off DA?
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We are all put in different positions for different reasons.
Kim Alexis
Almost every single image of the THOUSANDS of images have been stolen from around the net - most, from what I saw - are from deviantART.
The guy is even asking for TAGGERS to contact him so he can tag more work PROFESSIONALLY!
When I wrote to him and asked him to stop, he wrote back and said he was just sharing good art he found and no one could stop him.
His e-mail is:
witchy@witchyswikkedgraphix.com
Original: [link]
Stolen & editted: [link]
Original: [link]
Stolen & editted: [link]
Original: [link]
Original #2: [link]
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92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature.
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Real song names can be so retarded sometimes
Cheeseburger
Extreme Dishwasher Race
The Error Song
Emoticons
Eat That Cake
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Want to know how to get more PV? Click here! [link]
ORIGINAL: [link]
STOLEN: [link]
ORIGINAL: [link]
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92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature.
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Free plushie pattern: [link]
Because Free=Love
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The eternity where tends to be there temporary,
every moment becomes the eternity.
[link]
But has repeatedly abused copyrights by editing images. Before I reported that she stole and edit
Stolen & Edited: [link]
Original: [link]
If you use a translator, a conversation within the comments reveal her friend asking "did you get permission from Tigerfog"
(much props to her for confronting it!)
And vale replies "si" which is yes (DUH)
I have evidence STRONGLY proving otherwise: [link]
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92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature.
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"Hide not your talents. For use they were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" -Benjamin Franklin
yesterday, details of altasking's pages were Male/United States.
Spoke in bad English, with occasional lol and emoticon (^_^)<----
today, changed to Male/Unknown, residence Tokyo, Japan, spoke in Babelfish-d "Japanese"
accompanied with more lolEnglish.
Now, regarding one of the stolen works:
[link]
Original Artist:
[link]
Now to find out if *altasking was really stealing art, I did a background check (deviantART and other sites) and found his homepage was [link]
As of now, I am looking for a way to contact the original artist on this matter. Now if only I can speak Japanese...
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Member of:
Anti-Yaoi Pairing By Fangirls Front
Opencanvas Club
Bad End Theatre
Hello gentlemen. I am not very good at speaking the language you call EngliBLAH BLAH BLAH
tl;dr I'm good in English.
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Lara Croft in TR Legend: "I never forget a face."
i will not stand by and let people steal art from us and put it up on photobucket. Here's how to report them:
[link]
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Lara Croft in TR Legend: "I never forget a face."
i will not stand by and let people steal art from us and put it up on photobucket. Here's how to report them:
[link]
From *Equinus
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"Leaders pay attention to their herd's needs and are willing to guide and care about the herd members. A true leader will never give up. A true leader believes in oneself. A true leader will fight till the end...I am Lead Mare of the Northern Herd."
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'I reject your reality and substitute my own!' - MythBusters
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'You can't fix stupid...' - Ron White
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"Price check on prune juice, Bob, price check on prune juice..." - Batty Koda (Fern Gully)
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'What the hell are YOU staring at?!' - Duckman
the false
the original
[link]
the false
[link]
the original
[link]
And she say I have a permission for this pics stolen from
[link]
[link]
[link]
But the artist say..
Please do not copy, trace, or reproduce lineart or style in any way without given permission.
I don´t think she had a permission...
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HuSkY vIxEn loves his Chubby Fox: Te AmO zOrrItO!!!!∫
Avatar template by *Albinea.
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HuSkY vIxEn loves his Chubby Fox: Te AmO zOrrItO!!!!∫
Avatar template by *Albinea.
~ImEverywhere is an art thief who posted photo manips. of Paris hilton in thumbsshare, but he quickly took it out of his gallery when I told him about it. The rest of his photo manips. (if they are even his) are made with stock not credited to the artists.
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The happiest people don't always HAVE the best of everything; they just MAKE the best of everything.
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Explore monogamy
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92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature.
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miaow?
I took a photo of a painting called "Flowers For Mom" by Tim Cox. Others helped me find out who the artist was cause I didn't know. You could tell it was a photo of my studio wall. I had called it "Cowboy and Lil Sis" for a deviation name. Of course I can't get permission from this Tim Cox guy who does this style of western art all the time.
After reading DA's guidelines as to what it considers theft and not, I decided to take it down. I don't wanna get banned. DA is my family.
What do YOU think?
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Life is a lesson, the world is a classroom. Don't play hooky. Chris Earle
The Flying Fickle Finger of F*ck You has poked me in the eyeball once again....
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92% of teens have moved onto rap. If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music, copy and paste this into your signature.
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miaow?
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