Emydoidea

I just saw a torrent site that had more than a thousand illegal downloads of my Photoshop Megapack … in 24 hours. Seriously, how many people use Photoshop out there?! I mean, of course I’m upset, but I’m equally baffled by this number - I didn’t realize that many people had an interest in making digital art. It’s nuts.

Artists stealing from artists. I can’t understand it.

And I am always afraid to raise my already insultingly low prices BECAUSE I am afraid of more piracy. So, what am I supposed to do here? 

The sad truth is that I either DO need to raise prices to make up for the gross number of thefts and keep my income stream from diminishing (which would, of course, make them less affordable for students and young pros), or I need to completely change the business model somehow to somehow fight piracy. I don’t know how to change it, exactly, but since piracy of my products has been steadily increasing every year since I started, I need to figure something out.

Final thought: If just 5% of those people had bought legally, I’d have made $750 today. Okay, okay - that thought will definitely not improve my mood.

If you are a victim of piracy of your creative products, and you have some thoughts on this topic, I welcome them in comment form. Also, if you agree that this behavior is disgusting, and that we artists should be supporting one another, rather than acting like cannibals, then PLEASE REBLOG. Perhaps, if we make a little noise, it will at least make people reconsider using torrent sites when they realize that working artists are behind all of the creative products they love: music, art, film - all of it.

If Kyle doubled or tripled his prices, I’d still pay for them because they’re WORTH IT, but that would sadly just make piracy worse, because apparently WAAAH I’M POOR or LAZY apparently means people feel entitled to something for nothing. No. Pay up or cope without until you can.

no, i imagine i’m all alone on a friday night (which is when this came in) and instead of wondering why i find myself alone on a friday night i go on tumblr and try to insult a writer by calling him gay but little do i know that that writer is not insulted by being called any kind of sexual orientation because it is not an insult to be anything on the spectrum. 

and then i imagine i suddenly figure out that my short sighted, hate filled brain is probably why i’m alone on a friday night in the first place and i cry myself to sleep.

It’s voting day today in Canada, my beloved home and native land. Let’s vote for defending our fragile resources from climate change. Let’s vote for the north pole, for human health, for maple trees. Let’s vote for science.

I’m giving away one “bronze” BAT BITE keychain! Get your bat before all the kids on your block!

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