Raever
Chaotic Neutral Wreckage
Alright so I'm not sure how popular this suggestion would be, but I was wanting to throw it out there anyway. I see a lot of people get their art used/stolen by people who really have no rights to the pieces and refusing to credit the original owners/artists. Furaffinity is also one of the - if not the, - largest furry art websites to date. Would it be possible to provide ways to prevent art theft on the site? Such as but not limited to:
1. Disabling Right-Click // Disabling Hotlinking - While they're both different things, I'm combining them since they accomplish the same thing. So, FA could disable users ability to right click on images to save them. Sure, computers still have snip tools and mobiles have a screenshot ability, but you'd be surprised at how many people give up after ol' reliable doesn't work anymore. As for hotlinking, preventing people from hotlinking from public profiles would give incentive for more members to have public profiles to begin with, but also make the art feel more protected (imo) as well as stop lazy people from using the art (which is a surprising number!).
2. Adding a DMCA Badge - I'm not sure if this would work for FA specifically since it's a host to various artists versus the owner of all content (or is it?) but maybe adding a DMCA badge would act as deterrent for those wanting to steal art that's hosted on the website?
3. Removing the download buttons on the website (I never understood their purpose tbh...).
What do you guys think?
1. Disabling Right-Click // Disabling Hotlinking - While they're both different things, I'm combining them since they accomplish the same thing. So, FA could disable users ability to right click on images to save them. Sure, computers still have snip tools and mobiles have a screenshot ability, but you'd be surprised at how many people give up after ol' reliable doesn't work anymore. As for hotlinking, preventing people from hotlinking from public profiles would give incentive for more members to have public profiles to begin with, but also make the art feel more protected (imo) as well as stop lazy people from using the art (which is a surprising number!).
2. Adding a DMCA Badge - I'm not sure if this would work for FA specifically since it's a host to various artists versus the owner of all content (or is it?) but maybe adding a DMCA badge would act as deterrent for those wanting to steal art that's hosted on the website?
3. Removing the download buttons on the website (I never understood their purpose tbh...).
What do you guys think?