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I took a tour of youtube today, hunting for "inspiring" songs, something to fit my mood as I write (and paint. At the same time. I iz multitask girl).
And... to make a long story short, I stumbled upon one of my old musicvids. I used to make them with much passion and love, three years ago or so. But then they got stolen, each and every single one of them. Random people downloaded them from my site or Leia's site (the only site that hosted them with permission), put them on youtube, and got all the credit. They also got thrown all the flames and stupid s**t, of course (and by s**t I don't mean critiques. Those are always welcome. I mean derisive, idiotic comments like "you like LOTR, so you must be a fag" Or "this is stupid, I hate the song, go kill yourself" ← and there REALLY is such a comment in there.) But that's little consolation.
I...I'm not sure why I'm mentioning this, actually. *blinks*
Maybe it's because I often read about art theft (which is awful); but... not many ever consider that vidtheft is still... theft. It's upsetting to see your works used and modified by perfect strangers, and see them take the credit for your hard work. That this work was drawn or put together with a video program changes little. It's still YOUR work. YOUR efforts.
What prevented the person who uplaoded the vid on youtube from asking me first? What prevented them from putting my name somewhere, from giving me credit? What prevented them from ever replying to the "cool joob, dude" comments with something along the lines of "I uploaded it, but I didn't make it"? (And, similarly, what prevent them to answer to the mean flames with a "Wrong dude, man. Go bother Nemesi if you don't like this s**t"?)
Back then when I made these vids, I had a lousy PC, with little to no memory and even less RAM. It would crash every five minutes, and getting the timing right was a pain. While a normal person with a normal PC might finish a a vid in... what... a week? Two? Over-perfectionist Neme with her overworked schedule (we were in the middle of our first movie back in the days, and I was head of my department) and crashing-every-three-seconds PC would take two months. I'm not joking. I also had to go beg and bother my online friends for clips, since my PC (surprise!) crashed if I touched e-mule or something similar with a stick. And more than once I skipped or shortened my lunchbreak at the Studios to check the vid on a PC that wouldn't crash.
...and they couldn't drop me a line saying: "Liked it. Uploading it to youtube. Take care."
...bah.
It's not THAT big of a deal; and as mentioned above, I'm not sure the exact reason why I'm even mentioning it. I just felt like doing it, I guess. This isn't meant to be an angry rant, and I'm not making accusations or pointing fingers at anyone. Believe me when I say I went through worse online; and I'm quite sure many of you have been through MUCH worse, as well. I KNOW some who have.
Many people I know make campaigns against fanart theft (and they rock! *squishes*). I guess I just wanted to make a campaign against *any* kind of creative work theft. D: