The Hall of Shame

This is standard on many community based websites. It's a record of the members who have been banned, why they were banned, and how to contact them. I started this post today (August 12, 2005) because I had to ban a member today. And what's sad about this member is that she was on the site for several months posting what I believe to be her own stories. Then, today she decided to post artwork that wasn't hers and claim it as her own. It breaks my heart to see someone do this. What's the point I ask you? Anyway, this is the Hall of Shame...

cardcaptor143
Banned circa Jun 7, 2004
sakura_avalon143@hotmail.com
Plagiarism of various DBZ fan art

Urd-chan
Banned circa Dec 8, 2004
lrszym@pla-net.net
Posting a link to a porn site, (Spamming)

rpgmusic-man
Banned April 7, 2005
MPHoral@hotmail.com
Plagiarism of FF7 fanart

pinkie
Banned circa Apr 27, 2005
plusle1@gmail.com
Forum Spamming

D~FURIOUS and D-FURY
First banned July 5, 2005
HYGHTEK@YAHOO.COM, HYGHTEK@hotmail.com
IP Address: 172.135.68.69 (this user has been IP banned)
First banned for spamming and abusing the services of paperdemon.com (when it was bogusred.net) for promotional purposes
Created a second account "D-Fury" on Oct 10, 2005 and was banned the same day. If you can believe it, he is holding an art contest for the purposes of stealing peoples art.
Plagiarism of various anime fanart and official art, breaking site rules by ignoring bannishment and creating second account.

Dark Majin Vegeta and Vegeta Lover
Banned August 13, 2005
speedy81933@aol.com, Vegeta2313@aol.com
Plagiarism of various DBZ fanart and official DBZ art.

Len Tao X Horohoro, Ren X Horokeu
Banned August 15, 2005 and August 16, 2005
Emma Grayson
xxfunkyemzxx@msn.com, graysonsz4@msn.com
IP Address is 82.38.3.98 through Blueyonder Internet Service Provider: http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/
Plagiarism of various Shaman King fanart.
Click here to view her MSN profile
Read her letter of apology.
View her DeviantArt profile
View another of her DeviantArt profiles

MetallicaOne
Banned September 17, 2005
Christopher
devious_lil_funker@yahoo.com
IP address: 70.189.68.81 (this user has been IP banned)
Plagiarism of Chibi James Hetfield artwork by MexMarco and Furan-san, being rude to me.
Original Artwork

VBDz
Banned January 6, 2006
Naomi
bideru@inorbit.com
IP address: 65.12.116.35 (this user has been IP banned)
Plagiarism of official Kingdom Hearts artwork and who knows what else. All of this users artwork has been removed but is available in the deletion log. Click for proof of plagiarism.

mimitchi45
Banned February 25, 2006
yaeina234@yahoo.com
IP Address: 69.248.3.23 (this user has been IP banned)
Plagiarism of "Miss Son Goku" DBZ artwork.
Original Artwork

Tomboy Girl, secret adventurer, Tomoroto
Banned May 5, 2006
tomoroto@gmail.com
This user was banned because she kept sending me stupid chain letters even though I told her NUMEROUS times to stop. I have reported her to gmail. She also broke numerous rules on the site such as spaming people to tell them about Neopets. OMG NEopEts is teh bomb!!11!!1!11!111one!oneone!

Bad Karma 33
Banned May 22, 2006
IP address: 71.82.5.84
rand4562000@yahoo.com
Flaming yaoi artists by calling them gay and posting hentai images as visual critiques to try and "convert" yaoi artists to being strait. He obviously doesn't know that the artists he's flaming are girls not gay men.



Vincent Valentine, Axel X Sora
Banned July 23, 2006
IP address: 70.170.67.124 (IP has been banned)
genis_or_raine@hotmail.com, Jaden-Yuki14@hotmail.com
This user created a second account (Axel x Sora) and then plagiarized various Naruto, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts artwork with that account.
Her parents oddly enough were also members here. They got so upset that their daughter had been banned that they asked to be banned too. Their usernames are gatorchas and LarknessWitchCraft. The mother went around spamming the site with the same message. Remnants of her spamming were left up for amusement:
http://www.paperdemon.com/forums/viewtopic.php/1104.html

BarbedWireblood
Banned July 24, 2006
Real name: Savannah Hill
vanvanhill@yahoo.com
IP address: 199.253.16.2 (ip has been banned)
Plagiarized writing and Naruto Artwork. The original artists have been contacted.
Savannah's myspace page

InuPup
Banned Dec 31st, 2006
ritabeverly2004@yahoo.com
Plagiarized Inuyasha fanart

NEPi, Saimain -fake-
Banned July 28, 2007
Real name: Stacey "Paine" English
nepi.deruke@gmail.com, adele.saimain@gmail.com
Plagiarized/Impersonated the artist NEPi and the artist Saimain. Original artists have been contacted. This person has been jumping from site to site impersonating several different artists. Saimain keeps a page going with up to date information about her ongoing fraud.

jiuge,Miyagu
Banned Oct 14, 2007
jiugeyangfan@gmail.com, miyagueeanee@gmail.com
IP: 69.138.203.191 (blocked)
Plagiarized/Impersonated the artists Miyagu/Benita Winckler and Jiuge. Original artist Miyagu contacted us about this. Jiuge has been notified.

Anya_Yuy
Banned Oct 30, 2007
anya_yuy@hotmail.com
Plagiarized various Gundam Wing official art, fanart, and published doujinshi.

These people NEVER learn. It boogles my mind, I mean you're getting PRAISE for something you DIDN'T DO, and you are squeeing and thanking people.

It's gotta be a brain malfunction, I sometimes think they actually BELIEVE they deserve the praise.

I've had so many people plagiarise me (Fiction and Art)

I've had them upload my whole webpage (including the html formatting) to Fanfic.net and just change the author name.

I've had them airbrush or crop out my signature on images and repost...

I know usually within 24 hours when I log in and I see my e-mail has EXPLODED with reports of the theft to me.

HOW people think they can steal ANYTHING, especially well saturated/high view fanart/fanfic is almost laughable.

It would be like me coming here and taking Bogus' art and sticking my name on it. Everyone here has already SEEN IT and KNOWS it's hers.

I had a really HIGH profile in GW fandom for years. So it was the same there, I had my name and work out there, it was recognizable by the fandom at large.

So when people go to ff.net or mediaminor with my stuff, even NOW after I've left active fandom... I get theft e-mails at least once every 3-6 months.

People can be so stupid sometimes.

hello i'm new but i'm Dark Majin Vegeta's sister um...i hope you don't mind me posting her stories up again cause she told me she's sorry about the art stuff and promises she won't do it again it's just she can't draw and she wanted some cool art on the site by her so she's sorry

Well, I knew a girl who used to steal art. She got kicked off Otaku. I thought something was odd that her style seemed to change with the direction of the wind, but I figured that she was nice and wouldn't hurt someone like that. *sigh* I guess you just never can tell.

I think that is horrible for anyone to steal someone works!! I just can't believe they would do such a thing...I think they shouldn't be here if they do so all I have to say is good choice!

I know, right? I've worked really hard for what I can do. I'm not hardly good at art and I know what it's taken for me to be where I am. So, for people who have relly awesome art it must have taken them forever to get as good as they are. I've only been drawing anime since I was 12, but that year and a half were not easy.

yeah we all start out not being good at drawing and we work really hard to get better. It's not fair for someone else to just take our hard work that we put our hearts and souls into creating and claim it as their own. Good ridance!

You said it Susie!! woot woot!! Go Susie! lol! Yea people do work hard and I think it is wrong to take that away from them! So please be nice and respect other peoples stuff thanks!

uh-huh. There's this girl on Otaku, her username is psyconorika, and she's a wonderful artist. Really top notch. Well, like every few weeks someone is stealing her art on some site. In the last 2 months, there's been 3 of them. I feel so bad for her.

I wonder how you can stop that from happening!? Any of you guys know?

I just love the sister angle plea.

SORRY? Like an apology from a third party matters?

AHAHAHAHAHA

NOT! Geez, the nerve. But thanks for the chuckle.

You can't STOP theft on the internet... but you can do what I do to make it easier to bust them.

And I took this from Hirschfeld (Fabulous artist) He always hid his daughter's name NINA in all his works somewhere.

It's like a game almost to spot the NINA in his peices.

So now I always hide a "D" in my lineart somewhere in addition to my more visible signature at the bottom.

CROP THAT OUT STUPID!

^_^

Wow that's really clever, D. [btw, no double posting please. just edit your last post to add new info]

I probably won't be able to do it with my sketches but with more detailed work it's possible. I'll keep that in mind next time I do a more finished piece.

I always put bogusred.net on all of my art, that way if it manages to pop up on someone elses site, people know where the true artist's home is. But it's easy to crop it out. With my experience though, it's usually the ignorant who are stealing art. They don't have any software or the know-how to crop or airbrush signatures out. That at least works to our advantage.

Perhaps an even better way to prevent theft is to build relationships with a lot of artists and do a LOT of art and have a distinct style. That way, if someone steals your art, someone else who's seen your work will spot it right away and let you know.

Other than that, what else can you do?

Wow.. Its a shame for people to steal others work. They really deserve to be banned and put up on the wall of shame. Good job with handling the problem!

Wow, so many people on that list! haha, I didn't think so many people who actually think of stealing! T^T How sad! Hrms, I guess people just can't help being jealous and posting up someone elses works. That's just stupid and worthless! I hate people who steal art. You know though, if you want to be as good as someone else then try harder, no need to go and post their drawing up! Geez!I thought they'd be smart enough to already know that! I mean, drawing, geez, for me, i draw som,ething and if it looks bad but i love it, I LOVE IT!! I don't usually care what people say about my arts, unless they say you can work on this or that. But you know, I guess some people can't take that. By the way, i can't believe she's single and looking and she's only 14!! I'm 14! Geez, as long as i have my anime hotties, i'm fine! I watch tons and tons of anime! I'm so happy! It's very sad though that so many people here are banned.

question, what is to stop them from just signing up agian?

The way this site works is that you can't sign up with the same email twice. That is one way of preventing them from signing up. They can only sign up for as many email accounts as they have. If they have a static IP address I can ban them that way. But that's really all anyone can do.

Did you notice something hilareous?

If you scroll down the comments on the Chibi that Metallica stole... you'll see his COMMENTS on the submission!

LOL! You can PINpoint the exact DATE he stole it with ye old RIGHT CLICK-SAVE AS!

*cackle*

He must think we are TEH STOOPEED



Mind you he went by another DA screen name I'm assuming and only going by identical Icons used... Unless of course MetallicaOne stole that too.

O_o

What did his icon look like D? His icon had errors in it and it didn't show up in Firefox for me. I kept telling him to fix it and he never did. I guess he thought there was nothing wrong with it. I wanna see his comments.

Link to the COmment
http://comments.deviantart.com/1/4945799/58083391

Same ICON used by MetallicaOne (If memory serves) hard to judge by icons though, but if they ARE the same...

*CACKLE*

Talk about not covering tracks!