DesktopNexus Drama and Consequences

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You probably heard of the drama that has been going on with DesktopNexus.com. A lot of their members keep stealing artwork from the internet, especially deviantArt, without any consequences. Affected dA members (including me) are at DesktopNexus, trying to detect stolen artwork and contacting the thieves.

I also had a discussion with one of their "moderators" (volunteer with god complex). Well, what can I say, she kept writing the same arguments again and again. Summary: There is a report button, search for your wallpapers and report them. Your art is everywhere on the internet, how should members know if there is a copyright or not. Protect your art. And the most ridiculous statement of them was: We are willed to work with the artists. Yeah, not really. I told them, that it is not our job to search through over 600.000 wallpapers to search our art. I also told them that their current system does not work, since a lot of members don't know that they are not allowed to copy artwork or they don't care, because they only get a "warning" and that's it. Members violating the sites rules, why don't they bann them? Simple explanation: Because they don't care either. Their site only exists because of stolen artworks, if they'd bann every thief, there'd be no members left.
You know what happened when I wrote these comments? The "moderator" deleted them. That kept going for a couple of comments and when I stated that I make screenshots of my actions on their site (because I did not insult anyone and only made suggestions for improvement) I got a personal note from the "moderator" about my "unnecessary arguing", telling me that my comments are not needed nor welcome there. Oh yeah, and she put me on her ignore list, which I think is hilarious, because she is a "moderator". Talking to me about unprofessional acting...  

To reach the horde of DesktopNexus, I decided to take action "their way". So I made a wallpaper! :D
I'll upload it here as well as on DesktopNexus, so if you have an account there, it'd be great if you could support me there too. Though I think that some of them will feel offended and want it to be deleted or me banned. Better be quick ;)
Copyright Wallpaper by whitewinged can be viewed on DN: abstract.desktopnexus.com/wall…


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I support you all the way!