ok so lately on facebook ive seen TONS of fights about gfx thieves, wtf, who cares if theyre edits, like earlier i read 40 comments on jesters picture about faze editing stuff, wtf who cares! do they have to be the original creators??? NO! and if they edit something it does not mean that theyre bad at gfx.  

As someone who has poured countless, countless hours into my graphics only to have someone else use them and become way more popular with them... then have people claim you're stealing their graphics because they're more familiar with the person who is actually using your graphics and not properly crediting... it's an easy ****ing way to lose motivation.  

im saying that it doesnt mean you are bad at gfx if you edit someones elses stuff, ive edited lots of stuff, that doesnt mean im bad at gfx  

Posted by TWIZ

im saying that it doesnt mean you are bad at gfx if you edit someones elses stuff, ive edited lots of stuff, that doesnt mean im bad at gfx

No it doesn't mean your bad, it just means you're an asshat  

There is a difference between editing and recoloring.

Editing is taking a template and changing it and making it very different from the original so that the two could never be confused.

If you do this and give credit to the maker of the graphic you edited its okay, but ask permission.


Now if you take another graphic and just barely change it/recolor it that's not editing and it's not okay.

If you do that and don't give credit or don't ask the maker first then it's stealing because your claiming you made the graphic when you just barely edited it and its basically the same/recolored.

Stealing is a big deal, and if you steal a graphic you will be harassed, mocked, hated, and reported, if we actually get some gps that are moral you'll get the stolen graphic removed with no refund.


I try my best to stop these thieves by pointing out stolen graphics, harassing, reporting, and doing all I can to get them removed.

I have abused a eurocenter database glitch (now patched) that allowed me to use another eurocenter app to contact other accounts on graalonline via pm, clicking my name would bring the player to a blank user profile with my gender and name and nothing else, since my graalonline accounts have been banned by XOR,

I used the glitch to impersonate a eurocenter employee and threaten thieves that if they did not refund the stolen graphic I would manually remove it from their account and they would not receive any money back, and that if they upload any more copyright or stolen graphics I would ban them from the uploads system.

10/13 times this worked on them. 8/13 never stole again as far as I have found.

What I did was wrong, but if the staff wouldn't do it, I knew it was up to me. I'd do it again if I had the chance.

A note to all thieves out there, you will be caught, it is wrong, and it isnt a victimless crime. I and other GFXers will do whatever we can to make your life living hell. Just because staff may ignore it and spout crap about eurocenter owning all graphics and it being sharing and that it isn't a big deal doesn't mean your safe. Some of us around here have a lust for vengeance.  

i screwed up on the title, ima change it to gfx edits not thieves

and yeah, my main point is it doesnt matter if someone edits something, as long as they didnt say they didnt edit it  

Posted by Chaotic

No it doesn't mean your bad, it just means you're an asshat

Lmfao!!!! just make stuff from scratch, not that hard.  

Listen Twiz, there is a difference between editing and changing. If you're going to edit something you should at least change it up to look a lot different then the original piece or even completely different. I've seen Faze do a lot of recolors and very slight edits which aren't changing them at all. How about I add a dot on all your stuff and count it as editing and say I made this. You wouldn't like that I bet.  

Really?
How many times have we been through this already?