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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1arcticfox:devanjalek:
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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!
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Joy