I am not sure what to say. Many people are not reading what my stock rules are and continue to create art for sale (DA prints and beyond) or to be published in magazines with my non-commercial stock. Some do not speak English well enough to begin to understand my rules or what I write back in response to them when they tell me where art using my stock will be published. I am tired of dealing with this, and may be forced to remove all my stock. Gah!
I have many thousands of downloads on many of my plant stocks and that makes me happy. What does not is that many who visit here and download have no respect for my rules or those of others.
I came here with the intent of sharing properly cut-out stock with hobby artists, not to supply stock for commercial use. I have not fully decided what to do yet. If you are reading this and my galleries of stock are still available, you might want to download soon whatever you have not already that you might find useful for art for your own personal use.
I never thought I would remove my stock from DA, but I am teetering on the edge right now. I will at least put them in storage first for a while before removing them. I have no set timeline. Two flagrant violations in two days has not helped. You are forewarned - access may be terminated soon. (edited to add: now at 6 violations in 4 days and now all stock has been placed in storage for an indefinite period.)
I have put all my photo manipulation art (non-stock) in storage just now. I will be back in a few days and decide what to do about my stock. I do not like drama and am not posting this to create any. I just felt that my watchers should know that my free stock may disappear, but not because I don't want to freely share with those who like to create hobby art. I have had plans for some time to sell other (commercial use) stock later on Renderosity, but not these free items. They will always be free for personal use. Comments are welcome.
I plan to replace the description on every stock item eventually with the full rules and take them out of storage, but would have to carve time out of a schedule that so far does not allow for it.
I edited the description for all 900+ stock items stating "permission is needed for use outside DA" and I did a major edit to my stock rules [link] as well as putting a permanent entry at the top of my journal.
I also created a "favorites" folder named VIOLATIONS TO REPORT. When the thieves see the notification they get all scared and beg me not to report them. Then again 1/4 of them tell me to f*ck off and block me.
good luck
I do think putting them in storage before you delete would be a great step and give you time to think about it while not having them available, but can be available easily (as opposed to re-uploading all of them).
There are still people (well, idiots) that justify thievery by pretending if it's on the internet it's free. This is of course not true legally or ethically.
I can understand you well
to me it's not very different and I'm annoyed about these people
On the other hand, I am always when pictures from my stock
new, beautiful manipulations are me and a link is provided.
I think once you exhibited his pictures on the internet you have to
be aware that many people use.
Unfortunately, this is so and will never change
And other users who have to abide by the rules suffer if you offer no more stock.
It is so sad
I should be very sorry if you are offering no more Stock
PS: Sorry for my bad english
I do love seeing fantastic work that others create.