That said, I do need to give you more money. And when you re-released a coloured version of Balloon Bunny, I bought it instantly, even though I'd already bought the original when it came out instantly as well (I adore bunnies and inflation >.>). But I've tried to make up for that by purchasing every comic I even think I'll enjoy as time goes on. Now of course, I can't say I'm a saint, I've read some of your comics on these sites without paying for them, it's true. Do your best not to read any of it, that way lies depression for sure, it's creative-energy poison. It's even more depressing to know that they'll see this journal, and there'll be a flamewar between them of people defending you and saying you should be paid for your work (yet themselves not making any effort to stop the piracy nor purchase your art themselves) and the people who insist that you're a bad artist that they wouldn't pay for, yet whom they care about enough to follow every comic you make with rapt attention. It's utterly bizzare how they justify not purchasing your comics by saying 'He doesn't draw anything I consider good.' And yet there they are, on a forum dedicated entirely to your comics, looking through them and caring enough about them to create an account just to comment that they don't like them. I too have seen those message boards, read the comments, and been filled with a desire to write counter arguments on post it notes and affix them to their limbs with nail guns. That's all I gotta say, take it or leave it. But in the end we all suffer this same injustice as we grow in popularity. I do hope that with as many people whom have replied to your journal over the matter you'll find what you need. From what you've told me a few months ago when I came to you asking if you were open for commissions and you stated that you're far to busy to take on new clients, you must still be earning a fair amount if your not relying on commissions to make your money. Should we defend what is our's? Yes, I believe we should.Р”В«ut people will find ways to take what isn't there's. This is the price all of us artists pay when we choose to make a living off of this. Selling them off to make a buck.Р”В®ven if you try to reason with them, it's fall's of deaf ears and will turn the table on you to make it seem your labeling them unfairly. People will try to justify their reasoning as to why they steal from you and many other's. People will find ways to take what isn't their's. Nothing is 100% sound when it comes to the net. While I completely understand why this would be upsetting to you and many of us artists and agree that it's not fair on any level for these thieves to take work that isn't their's and sell it off as their own, it's going to happen. If you like a creatorРІР‚в„ўs work, you need to support them, if not by buying their work, then by not supporting or contributing to websites that steal it. Because my sense of what is fair, what is right and what is wrong, just does not allow me to adopt that mindset. If youРІР‚в„ўre not angered by the concept of another personРІР‚в„ўs work being taken without there permission, and used by another to generate ad revenue or as an excuse to ask for donations that line their pockets, IРІР‚в„ўd really like to know why. As is the fact they would rather give money to those who run the offending websites than the creators of the material theyРІР‚в„ўre ripping off. The mental gymnastics people perform to justify why itРІР‚в„ўs OK to undermine the attempts of others to make a living isРІР‚В¦. There are a lot of very helpful people who point me toward these websites, and I read the comments that get posted on them. All I can do is make a list, Arya Stark style, and hope that at some stage in the future I gain access to such means. I have neither the technical nor legal apparatus to prevent it. ThereРІР‚в„ўs absolutely nothing I can do to stop it. Even my Patreon page is scraped wholesale, now, with anything I post there РІР‚вЂњ and even the comments legitimate patrons leave РІР‚вЂњ appearing on mirror pages that anyone can view for free. What I never expected was that huge archives of my content would be collated, or how damaging to my endeavours those archives would be. ItРІР‚в„ўs the fate of all digital content: once you put it out there, itРІР‚в„ўs gone. When I started up The Apsara Portfolio, I knew that the comics I posted there would eventually find their way onto forums and image boards outside my control. IРІР‚в„ўd always hoped I gave enough away for free, via my website and DeviantArt, to win enough favour so that people wouldnРІР‚в„ўt mess with my revenue stream.

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