What are the best ways to prevent Art piracy?I won't be taken advantage of.
Don't share your work online. Make sure nobody is taking pictures when you show your art irl.
>>7912146being so bad no one would bother leaking your wokr
>>7912152What about censorship?
Are you worried someone might leak your paywalled drawings on Patreon?
>>7912146Be so bad that no one wants to steal your art.That works for the majority of /ic/ posters, it can work for you too!
>>7912153But I still get paid.What are you implying?
>>7912157I'm in the middle ground. People do like my artwork and pay me money. Just nobody is sharing cause they're all faggots.
>>7912156Half and half. I heard kenono.cr is having issues.
>>7912159sure, you can get a few subscribers but if you're bad you'll never have enough reach to worry about getting ripped offfor a serious answer, forget about it. if people like your work and personality, they'll sub to you. I think it's kind of a parasocial thing for your customers since exhentai and kemono makes art pirating trivial
>>7912146you have a bigger problem if people arent stealing your art
>>7912175This is too vague. I know I'm not bad like chris-chan. But I'm not an industry professional like kentaro muira 'berserk">exhentai and kemono makes art pirating trivial.What if I self upload dead links?
>>7912178That sounds fucking retarded."I have bigger problems if niggers aren't stealing from me at gunpoint."
I tag all my stuff as AI to stop it from spreading everywhere. A thing I noticed is that whenever you end up in one booru you'll end up in all of them within the week, some guys have bots constantly scraping them to copy the tags, images and other data verbatim. I don't know why, I assume they farm karma.Anyway since the cool ones all have very strict ai policies, if you slap the mark of the beast on your work yourself the first bot will tag it as AI and the subsequent bots won't re-upload it on e621, gelbooru or whatever, and break the chain so you'll only be on minor sites nobody really pays attention to.There's probably a moral issue about blurring the lines between human art and slop but there are thousands of AIfags not tagging their work and making the system useless anyway so I don't give a shit.
>>7912146never upload the art online outside your personal servers lmao
>nooo stop sharing my drawings
>>7912146>I won't be taken advantage of.In financial terms, or attribution?If you don't want your stuff stolen, then never posting online is the only way.If you want to be credited for your work, then you need to share your work constantly, become popular, and have a style unique enough that people will never mistake your artwork for someone else's. In fact, they will attribute other people's artwork to you.
>>7912164I doubt there's still anyone leaking to kemono lol. At least the artists I've been following (fairly known) don't get any updates past 2024
>>7912191Interesting.
>>7912146Hide a bunch of nigger, kike and tranny words in your picture.
>>7912146copyleftinghttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/your work cant be pirated if your license permits copying.bonus points if you used an ND license AI bros cant use it by law.
>>7912208>>7912211Double interesting.
>>7912181It sounds retarded because you don't understand it. Just take the advice and shut up, explaining it will be too much effort
>>7912221That also sounds fucking retarted Anon"It's too much effort to do anything, you'll die as the faggot you are, That took too many up the ass to understand why."
>>7912181Anon is saying that piracy is only a problem to people with a large enough following to worry about it, so if you aren't at a spot where you're realistically expecting it then you need to worry about getting there first.
>>7912146If you are big enough to have your art consistently "stolen" then you won't even have to worry about it affecting you.
>>7912256>>7912258No, that's dumb. People with large followings tend to have the time and money to recoup any losses brought on by piracy. The ones hurt by it the most are the small artists who are trying to expand; since they don't have time/money and are basically being told that they don't deserve a cent for their work.
>>7912181It's not retarded.The main point of sites like patreon is to deepen the parasocial relationship you form with a segment of your fans.>easy means of donation by people who would otherwise throw tips at you>semi-automatically provides "thank you" in the form of the patron benefits for each tier>much more direct line to communication with you as a personThere are, however, going to be devoted fans who are the type that love your work so much they want to archive and share it with everyone. Some of these will throw money at you, some will simply be friends of paying fans and ask to be shared it on the side. But the main thing they do is archive, spread, and generally advertise your work.The fact is that paywalling content is actually doing a disservice to your own art. You should be confident enough in each piece to let it loose, as it spreading around will in fact attract more people to your work who otherwise would miss your other pieces. Piracy for an artist is quite literally not a problem at all, it actually HELPS you as it removes yet more friction towards people becoming invested in your work. If anything you should be leaking your work yourself if you find it isn't getting shared as much as you would hope. The more reach you have, the more likely some of the people who chance across your work will be the kind who really fuck with it enough to want to pay you to keep doing what you do.The true measure of artistic success is how often your shit gets reposted across the whole internet, not how well any individual post/account shows on its own metrics.>>7912333Piracy causes no losses. You don't lose anything, you only gain reach. For most artists, some range of around 1-5% of their total followers will be willing to pay them in some fashion, depending on various factors. Reach is best gained via marketing strategies. Trying the megacorp method of watering down your own content just leads to wanting to kill yourself over the soullessness of it.
>>7912369Anon, i know you've been brainwashed to think that. which is fine and all.and Yes, that does work for a select few people like @khyleriMost of us are not him.But that also has the opposite effect cause it tells me that you don't care or value yourself enough. That your work is free and the people paying are underage parasocial losers.>Piracy causes no losses.That's because the costumer was disappointed with a shit product and doesn't see the same value. Some people don't want to pay for anything cause they're on welfare.>parasocial relationship.That does happen but do these people get anywhere in life? most likely not. there's 8 billion people on Earth. you don't need to soul suck a small percentage.
>>7912146Don't post your art on the internet. Simple as.>>7912181He's right thought. The people who pirate art were never going to pay for it in the first place - they aren't lost sales. If your art is good enough for people to bother pirating, it's good enough to make money.See also; Gabe Newell talking about piracy;>Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.”>“Prior to entering the Russian market, we were told that Russia was a waste of time because everyone would pirate our products. Russia is now about to become [Steam’s] largest market in Europe.”If your service is good, people will pay for it. There will always be people who don't, but they were never going to pay for it in any case, so they don't matter.
>>7912333>The ones hurt by it the mostis no one... guys this was proven time and time again piracy does not affect sales or profits in anywayman what happened to old anti-copyright sentiment internet used to have? why is everyone retarded?
>>7912392there are people who make money on patreon and can see their shit being leaked and are telling you that it doesn't affect their sales, and you're arguing back despite not knowing anything. Khyle? really? Thats your go to example?The world is so much bigger than that. You CAN work to prevent your art from being leaked so that NOBODY can see it, but its not worth the mental strain and effort to get that little bit of extra money from someone who will pay one time to see everything and then leak it anyways, or pay to see everything and then not become a fan because they dont like your art after seeing it for the first time.If you are trying to scam people with lazy art then I can see why piracy hurts you, since you don't want to be drawing, anytime someone sees it for free that means you are working for free. but if you are just a good artist with fans then most people who want to support you, WILL.
>there's 8 billion people on Earth. you don't need to soul suck a small percentage.holy third world logic. A small percentage of 8 billion people is going to be a LOT, that's the whole point of targeting! There are more than enough whales for everyone, the market is not nearly tapped out for good artists.
>>7912635Wasn't there a thread last month complaining about how the top earners aren't making as much as we thought they'd be making compared to the number of their Twitter followers?
>>7912635>There are more than enough whales for everyone.What if there's not? What if the whales are dying? Every videogame company is in dire straights right now.
>>7912679then you might as well kill yourself>>7912675a small percentage of your followers being paying subs is common knowledge, and its unrelated to the topic on piracy.
>>7912175Kemono barely functions and 90% of paywall sites have no scrapping/upload capability there
>>7912683You said that last time. You should kill yourself first. Stop wasting our time.
>>7912710You're asking shit that doesn't matter like "What if an asteroid crashes into Earth and destroys everything?" and I'm saying if you are just looking for a reason to not try, then just stop trying. I don't actually want you to kill yourself.
