Mackey Medley

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to find anyone stating what I saw on the following Youtube video in English, so, I’ll post the original one (in italian) here and provide a (as decent as I can) summarized translation below:

0:00-1:00: The guy is talking about how the site is supposed to work and how many of his photographers collegues (and artists in general) are going crazy over the whole thing.

1:01-2:04: He states that it’s a fake for the following reasons:

1:12-1:18: The counter is just an image, as it is permanently stuck at 3.614 buyers.

1:19-1:44: There’s a system that mimics a Google App to do images search over the web, that thus doesn’t use an inner database where the images are stored, but rather launches a search on Google Images depending on what words you put in the search box (meaning that the site is actually not hosting the images or have them saved in an inner database, but that they do a Google search of the wrods you search and shows the results).

1:45-2:04: If you try to buy some of these photos (as they tried to do, as they registered on the site and tried to buy something), once you’ve loaded your cart, they do not request your credit card to finalize the buy. (You just can’t simply buy anything from there, because it doesn’t give you the option to put your credit card number and finalize the purchase.)

2:05-2:59: He states that, trying to find out who is running the site, the IP address of the machine where the site is hosted (which changed 38 times in the last few years) is in Kiev and that the source page has written, in Cyrillic, ‘Regstratia’ (I have no idea how it’s written, I’m basing it from how he pronounces it).

3:00-3:30:Their address where the site states they have a store, which also includes the opening and closing schedule, is in ‘921 King Street, New House, around the corner of the New Town Station’. He states that both ‘King Street’ and ‘New Town’ are too generic names, that exist all over the world, and that that particular street number doesn’t actually exist.

3:31-4:28: He wraps up the whole thing, stating once again how it’s nothing but a giant fake.

Sorry if my English is terrible (I’ve tried to translate just the most important parts, and the fact I’m typing this at 2:00 AM doesn’t help that much)….

WALLPART.COM 

…sells posters out of images in the web without creators’ consent. Two artists I know IRL have also discovered their non-commercial, personal works up for sale. If you’re a creator and would like to check if your work is being sold there illegally, just enter your name/penname into the search tab.

Whether you’re a creator or not, please help spread the word and sign the petition to remove the site, here:

(PETITION)

A little of your time and support goes a long, long way for your favorite creators!

Also, really, wallpart? That’s a 750-px web-quality jpeg. I hope you had fun printing a fragmented red vomit onto your ‘premium grade matte material’. 

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