Posted by Mij

Talking about whether jailbroken iDevices are right or not might be going a little off-topic here lol. My stance on stolen GFX's is that it 1) discourages original art and 2) makes people miss the bigger picture here; that if artists could have their own rights over their art, or even protection over their art, then the Graal income flow would expand.

For my first point, why the heck would I work on a head for a week if I know it's open on iFiles for stealing/re-coloring, and it'll be perfectly legal? It'd make more sense to grab the nearest head off of Soulslayer's website and recolor. So of course it's no surprise not many people are attempting at original art! There's no reason to.

My second point. Let's say that Graal decides to let artists keep their copyright of their head, or at least protects their art on iFiles in some way. I'm not saying either are possible, but work with me. Not everyone's going to throw glitter and suddenly do their own art, but there will be more reason to try doing things from scratch. With the environment like this, over a few months more and more art will be from scratch, because original art grabs more attention than recolors any day. Suddenly, people will want these heads/bodies that they can't achieve through iFiles. So what do they have to do? Make it themselves, or hire somebody to do it. People might feel generous and release their from-scratch heads/bodies for recolors. More templates for recolored heads/bodies = more room for imagination = more uploads.

This leaves Graal with more templates, more original artists, more people interested in personal heads/bodies, more uploads. This is the bigger picture I'm trying to prove.