Why I'll never run an Anime Website
t's been a while since I've written a rant, but this is something that has really gotten my blood boiling as Nuriko and I were perusing different websites....
...and once again the Anime community has sickened and appalled me.
In the last three hours, I have visited about 30 or so anime-related websites, and the vast majority of them "borrowed" images from our image gallery. Now this is of no surprise, as this is why Nuriko spends hour after hour each day scanning, fixing and posting images in our gallery, so that you, the visitor, can use them for your anime projects, desktops or to just print out for your general enjoyment as most individuals just don't have the means or the funds to drive 2 hours (or longer depending on your location) to Los Angeles and buy virtually every back issue, current issue and special release of every Japanese Magazine (where 90% of the images come from) available.
...What pisses me off, is that once again a bunch of punk-ass infantile dipshits have yet again taken images and claimed that THEY were the ones who scanned them, fixed them and "worked really hard" to get these images.
Screw you.
Upon my continued conversations with Nuriko, we had a problem with this pretty much a the same time LAST YEAR, where nearly 50 websites thought they were slick enough to pull the wool over people's eye's and claim that it was them who made it possible for these images to be available on the web... during my visits to these websites, I experienced a sense of deja vu as I read disclaimer after disclaimer of "Do not remove the watermark from our wallpapers" or "Please don't take our images"...
...punk-ass bitches.
Getting back to the title of this rant. This exact bullshit is the one very reason that I will NEVER ever run an anime website, or incorporate anime material in my website. It is because there are so many teenage and early twenty-something fucks like these punk bitches (and their 50,000 fucking pop-ups and flipped images) who not only have used the images that Nuriko scanned and fixed in their wallpapers, but don't even have the common courtesy to post a link on their website stating WHERE they got their images...
...Oh, but that's right... these people worked really really hard ripping of--- er, I mean "scanning" and getting these images for their original wallpapers, and the funniest thing is we've had dialogues with these ladies before.
Don't get me wrong, there are, albeit a honorable and honest few, who actually do have the balls, and the integrity, to post a link of our site on theirs, and some, like this fine lady (link opens new window) who not only put a link up but a button too!
So why do these people rip shit off and claim it as their own? Don't these people think someone is going to notice and call them on the carpet?...
What I think this boils down to, is these kids have been taught that it's okay to lie and to steal due to the fact that many of their parents (that's right, if you're one of these stupid fucks I think your parents are just as much of a fuck-up as your are), either directly as they lie and steal in their lives and jobs or indirectly but not punishing these kids for lying or stealing in their "non-Internet" lives. What makes it worse is the fact that because of the very anonymity that the Internet affords makes it easier for these people to undercut those who honestly contribute, claim it as their own and thereby short-change the process.
So what's the solution? I've already e-mailed, or in some cases, blogged (in the absence of an e-mail address) several sites telling them exactly what I think, but I know that this isn't going to be all that effective.
So here's what I'm discussing with Nuriko about:
Because of you content-stealing fucks out there, you're going to ruin it for everyone else:
Since we've already tried this for two-years now, with Nuriko doing it politely last year,... and my not-so-subtle approach this year. We are now in talks of dating and watermarking every new image scanned from now on, as well as adding watermarks to the current gallery...
...and I'm talking HUGE, UGLY and RIDICULOUS watermarks. These watermarks will run diagonally from corner to corner in HUGE print so that the images will no longer be usable
.
If that's not bad enough, how about this:
Currently, as a php/mysql programmer (not just php include() crap), we're also in talks to remove the gallery all together and make it an FTP, where only those with a username and a password will have access to download the images (which will also be watermarked). While downloads will be free, we'll have a full and complete list of ANYONE and EVERYONE who is downloading images, and will require you to post a valid e-mail AND website which will be verified before you are allowed to access the FTP. This way if the bullshit continues, we can simply shut all current accounts and require everyone to re-register.
And, if all else fails:
...we just close the gallery. Everyone at APA works way too hard to continually get the middle finger like this all the time.
...I think this is enough for now... interestingly enough I am already getting contacts from these other sites, so I'll post an update soon.
Moral for the day:
Don't be a bitch and just give us the same respect you yourself demand... and should deserve.
...and once again the Anime community has sickened and appalled me.
In the last three hours, I have visited about 30 or so anime-related websites, and the vast majority of them "borrowed" images from our image gallery. Now this is of no surprise, as this is why Nuriko spends hour after hour each day scanning, fixing and posting images in our gallery, so that you, the visitor, can use them for your anime projects, desktops or to just print out for your general enjoyment as most individuals just don't have the means or the funds to drive 2 hours (or longer depending on your location) to Los Angeles and buy virtually every back issue, current issue and special release of every Japanese Magazine (where 90% of the images come from) available.
...What pisses me off, is that once again a bunch of punk-ass infantile dipshits have yet again taken images and claimed that THEY were the ones who scanned them, fixed them and "worked really hard" to get these images.
Screw you.
Upon my continued conversations with Nuriko, we had a problem with this pretty much a the same time LAST YEAR, where nearly 50 websites thought they were slick enough to pull the wool over people's eye's and claim that it was them who made it possible for these images to be available on the web... during my visits to these websites, I experienced a sense of deja vu as I read disclaimer after disclaimer of "Do not remove the watermark from our wallpapers" or "Please don't take our images"...
...punk-ass bitches.
Getting back to the title of this rant. This exact bullshit is the one very reason that I will NEVER ever run an anime website, or incorporate anime material in my website. It is because there are so many teenage and early twenty-something fucks like these punk bitches (and their 50,000 fucking pop-ups and flipped images) who not only have used the images that Nuriko scanned and fixed in their wallpapers, but don't even have the common courtesy to post a link on their website stating WHERE they got their images...
...Oh, but that's right... these people worked really really hard ripping of--- er, I mean "scanning" and getting these images for their original wallpapers, and the funniest thing is we've had dialogues with these ladies before.
Don't get me wrong, there are, albeit a honorable and honest few, who actually do have the balls, and the integrity, to post a link of our site on theirs, and some, like this fine lady (link opens new window) who not only put a link up but a button too!
So why do these people rip shit off and claim it as their own? Don't these people think someone is going to notice and call them on the carpet?...
What I think this boils down to, is these kids have been taught that it's okay to lie and to steal due to the fact that many of their parents (that's right, if you're one of these stupid fucks I think your parents are just as much of a fuck-up as your are), either directly as they lie and steal in their lives and jobs or indirectly but not punishing these kids for lying or stealing in their "non-Internet" lives. What makes it worse is the fact that because of the very anonymity that the Internet affords makes it easier for these people to undercut those who honestly contribute, claim it as their own and thereby short-change the process.
So what's the solution? I've already e-mailed, or in some cases, blogged (in the absence of an e-mail address) several sites telling them exactly what I think, but I know that this isn't going to be all that effective.
So here's what I'm discussing with Nuriko about:
Because of you content-stealing fucks out there, you're going to ruin it for everyone else:
Since we've already tried this for two-years now, with Nuriko doing it politely last year,... and my not-so-subtle approach this year. We are now in talks of dating and watermarking every new image scanned from now on, as well as adding watermarks to the current gallery...
...and I'm talking HUGE, UGLY and RIDICULOUS watermarks. These watermarks will run diagonally from corner to corner in HUGE print so that the images will no longer be usable
.
If that's not bad enough, how about this:
Currently, as a php/mysql programmer (not just php include() crap), we're also in talks to remove the gallery all together and make it an FTP, where only those with a username and a password will have access to download the images (which will also be watermarked). While downloads will be free, we'll have a full and complete list of ANYONE and EVERYONE who is downloading images, and will require you to post a valid e-mail AND website which will be verified before you are allowed to access the FTP. This way if the bullshit continues, we can simply shut all current accounts and require everyone to re-register.
And, if all else fails:
...we just close the gallery. Everyone at APA works way too hard to continually get the middle finger like this all the time.
...I think this is enough for now... interestingly enough I am already getting contacts from these other sites, so I'll post an update soon.
Moral for the day:
Don't be a bitch and just give us the same respect you yourself demand... and should deserve.
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