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Rank: Artist Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 42

It is sad and unfortunate that such inconsiderate individuals exist.

Rank: Rookie Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 82

If somebody would share my works people pay for I would do everything to find out his/her IP and start a charge against him since breaking ToS of anything can be charged~ Good that I am a computer scientist. Rolling Eyes

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 2568

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 7

I have a question. What about having this comic actually printed and sold online (I'm guessing the local Barnes & Nobel probably wouldn't want to carry it)? I collect comics and manga and I'd love to have a bound copy of this. I know that Fred over at Megatokyo has put out 6 books of his comic. I just don't know how much the overhead for that would be.

Rank: Artist Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 417

Damn those chan faggots >.<

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 504

Wow, and to think I influenced policy change here with my first post... I hope I didn't make any enemies around here...

Rank: Veteran Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 668

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

For future referance, please do not use the term "faggot" or any variation as an insult, I find it offensive. Thank you.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 2112

If I may be so bold, might I suggest a few other choice words to describe various people lacking in morale fiber? Rapscallion, chowder head, blackguard, miscreant, reprobate, vagabond, knave, mountebank, scoundrel, charlatan, and my personal favorite, slime bucket.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

Those are good ones, Xebulon, but "rat fink", "louse" and "clear-blooded mongrel" might want to be reconsidered, considering our current state of being.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 2112

Hmm, an excellent point Ashton. I shall retract them forthwith.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

Happy to be of service, as always.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 648

Wow, wow.. I am way behind...

Vanessa, since you replied to my post specifically:

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 1000

Pirate scum... But I've made my opinion on this subject plain enough before and feel no need to go into it again. Please do what you feel necessary to earn your living.

I would really like for this site to stay up. Very Happy

Rank: Veteran Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 668

Let's hope we catch that thief red-handed. I got a lot of guarding to do in my accounts and none of my works were stolen.

This site needs a really good security guard.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 648

Ever thought of using a script to watermark the images by username? Wink

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 836

that could work but it is certainly a lot of work... of course the prosperity of this web site would make the work well worth it

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 648

It's not too much work - a little PHP and ImageMagick and Bob's your Uncle!

No, wait.. that's not useful, go home, Uncle Bob. I mean "there's a watermark". Wink

Forum Admin Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 3670

Hi Tursi, yes, I am familar with those you suggested above and we have considered that...

But it puts a huge load on the server to create a watermark for each person...

Its a good suggestion though. And we are still looking into it.

p.s. Tursi, don't forget to get some links to BonBon and Vixine for your homepage! More links for the furry community the better. Funny you linked to Asia Carrera's site. She shot with us like years ago for our Strip Games.... She is very cool in person!

-R

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 836

its too bad i got out of touch with some of my old hacker buddies... they could trace that bastard down...

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

What's stopping you from getting back in touch with them?

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 836

most of them got into some real bad stuff and most of those got caught and arrested

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

Hmm, that might put a damper on getting back in touch with them alright.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 836

yes i tend to avoid them now

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 648

Rank: Casual Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 10

It's a shame that the hard work of others is seen as something that certain people feel they have the give away for free against the will of the artist. It's mainly a problem of mentality and there are many groups which sponsor accounts for people to access various sites and steal images and materials from them.

The idea of "Royal Members" in Bon Bon is very good in my opinion, since many, many of these leeches buy the most limited accounts to try to access what ever is on the site. Just by extending the minimum amount of time one has to be a paying member can deny many leechers from stealing everything.

Personally, the division of images in 25 parts is actually a bit of a blessing for me. I'm stuck on an ISDN line here and because the parts are smaller to download, the comics load faster for me. Though I have to admit, that I did find out about PBB.com through the first comic being posted similar sites as 4chan. In a way of finding out what the comic is about and the fact that it has an interesting and relatively compelling story. Plus Vanessa's art is amazing (the style, coloring and the detail in the drawings are extremely hard to match).