dannykojima1

I understand it cheaper to buy [stolen] art from a site whatever a thief sold it to you, but once the original artist like myself shut them down with DMCA take down action, …your art becoming useless, because you do not have a proper commercial license to use it. Your art will always a counterfeit. And fake. Because the artwork still has the artist’s watermark on it.

If you want to use the artwork for your book, game, music or for personal use — then buy it from the original artist on DeviantArt, Fiverr or Etsy. Not from someone who sold you cheaper. It is like when someone couldn’t afford a $1,500 iPhone from Apple but decided to buy a $200 counterfeit ripoff iPhone from a black market.

This is why piracy such as pirated version of Adobe programs, film, music, pirated games, stolen art and counterfeit become a big problem today in America.