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SIMS2CREATORS INVESTIGATION

Journal Entry: Sat Aug 4, 2007, 2:27 PM


Thursday, July 26th 2007




Abide by DA Policies and TOS
Address Rip Issues and Respond In a Professional Manner
Operate On The Principles Of Truth & Honesty
Respond On The Basis of Facts, Not Rumors


PURPOSE

Take Complaints of Ripped Art & Investigate To The Best Of Our Abilities & Time.
Work To Have Ripped Art Removed and/or Sites Taken Down.
Provide Information & Education On Copyrights
Seek Out Sites Containing Stolen/Ripped Art
Promote A Safer Site For The Posting Of Art


WHAT WE CANNOT DO

Promise Results
Give Legal Advice
Satisfy Everyone
Accept Abuse or Flaming

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Please be advised that ALL displays of any images on the RATF pages which include the External RATF site, are for noncommercial research purposes to further our investigative efforts in connection with possible infringements and we will remove images immediately once we identify the information required or have authorization from the copyright owner to continue displaying the works.

SIMS2CREATORS INVESTIGATION
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IMH080307-1SIM
Original art ~robertmekis A hermitage out far

Print available
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IMH080307-2SIM
Original art ~robertmekis Road The Winter Can Come From

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Possible infringing image-->[link]
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IMH080407-1SIM
Original art `ssilence rays of reflection

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IMH080407-2SIM
Original art `ssilence far away

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IMH080407-1SIM
Original art ~PhotosByDolph  My Mom Made Me Take This Class

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We are swamped and apologize - respond times to comments/questions may be slow.

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:iconnyliaace:
Some people these days... :depressed: they just don't learn a lesson, do they?

I remember my sister's friend used a hack to delete a site of someone who pissed her off. It just popped out of my mind that if we use it, we could stop those art thieves from stealing.

Unfortunately, the use of illegal hacking is not appropriate for us to do. :dohtwo:

If only there's a way to stop those freaking websites that have stolen arts...it would have been much easier to avoid art theft.... :(
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:iconrippedarttaskforce:
Well, we are trying to stop them. What is most frustrating to us is that we find a piece of stolen art and notify the artist, and the artist doesn't answer the note. We can't do anything about stolen art unless the artist gives us permission to work on their behalf.

You are correct about the legality issue too. We will attempt to do nothing illegal and that is why the site is constantly changing and updating. We want to keep things totally legal and straight forward.

Thank you for the support!
Hugs,
Anj
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:icontheshadowmistress:
WTH? I thought Sims was like a vid game or something. Not all the images load up for me, but I especially recognize the calla lillies and the dance class from both dA and from the net. The calla lillies I actually have in my collection from the net, a studio of a photographer, so not dA related. I do know the dance studio (misfit ballet dancer) is from here, though. GRRRRR!!!!
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:iconrippedarttaskforce:
Sigh.. I know.
Hugs,
Anj
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:icontheshadowmistress:
The most frustrating thing is that dA can prevent people from being able to right click + save or copy. I've seen it done on other sites. It comes up with a copyright warning when you try it. They just won't give us the option.

I know it doesn't prevent screen captures, but it will slow them down BIG TIME when they have to actually go through all the hassle of cropping images. Do you think someone would steal 8,000 images if they had to crop them all? ;)
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:iconrippedarttaskforce:
I've been informed that doing that would be atrociously expensive for dA. I can belive it too.
Hugs,
Anj
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:icontheshadowmistress:
Mmmmaybe.. but since this is an art community that has had more rips than I've ever heard of, something needs to be done. Until then, they should put "Submit at your own risk" notes with an explanation about art thieves everytime you go to the "Submit Deviation" page. I'm not being sarcastic, either. So many people here don't realize art can and is stolen from here. Of course, as you and I know, a lot of artists here are thieves, as well.

*sigh* What ever happened to respect for each other and the simple feeling we're all supposed to have that prevents us from even considering hurting people that way? :(
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:iconrippedarttaskforce:
Some people obviously lack morals. Others want to grandize themselves... still yet others don't know it's wrong... sigh.
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:icontheshadowmistress:
Yep. The thing I don't get is sure - we are either taught right from wrong or we aren't. Still, when we are children, we FEEL that difference. It doesn't matter if you're parents read a holy book and pray everyday, or if they are athiest and believe in nothing after death. We have this knowledge within us as children. It is so very tragic that so many lose so much of themselves that their inner voice of innocence and goodness becomes mute.
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:iconlyinryan:
They're ripping everything!! This is bad!!
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