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I'm often at pains to point out the need to safeguard IP. If you're in any of the creative industries it's all of your daily bread and your pension for the future..
But a link received via EPUK today reveals just how low some people can sink
Photo Business News & Forum: PILFERED Magazine - Copyright Scumbags10
Some of these thieves are fairly high profile... Anthony Madler for instance is a fairly well established music video director... Yosi Sergant is an American publicist for Jennifer Gross' Evolutionary Media Group. He is known for his involvement with the "Hope" poster created during the 2008 presidential election by Shepard Fairey.
Brett Ratner is a $1Million per year movie and advertisment director...
Sickening that these people stoop to stealing when their own wallets are already bulging... Oh the about page at "Pilfired" claims some high ideals... But basically they're just ripping off other people's work... Taking the food off their kid's plates.
One respondent posts a useful link to a Los Angeles Times article which makes some fairly cogent points
For photographers and graphic artists, not a pretty picture out there - latimes.com
As I've suggested elsewhere... the 'something for nothing' mentality is based on a simple lie; that you can get something for nothing. The number on the price tag might say 'free'; but really the cost is much higher than that... One day you wake up to find that what was consumed to rabidly and freely is no longer there to be consumed at all.... Or if it is it can only be found at a price level so astronomical as to be unattainable for the average user...
But a link received via EPUK today reveals just how low some people can sink
Photo Business News & Forum: PILFERED Magazine - Copyright Scumbags10
Some of these thieves are fairly high profile... Anthony Madler for instance is a fairly well established music video director... Yosi Sergant is an American publicist for Jennifer Gross' Evolutionary Media Group. He is known for his involvement with the "Hope" poster created during the 2008 presidential election by Shepard Fairey.
Brett Ratner is a $1Million per year movie and advertisment director...
Sickening that these people stoop to stealing when their own wallets are already bulging... Oh the about page at "Pilfired" claims some high ideals... But basically they're just ripping off other people's work... Taking the food off their kid's plates.
One respondent posts a useful link to a Los Angeles Times article which makes some fairly cogent points
For photographers and graphic artists, not a pretty picture out there - latimes.com
As I've suggested elsewhere... the 'something for nothing' mentality is based on a simple lie; that you can get something for nothing. The number on the price tag might say 'free'; but really the cost is much higher than that... One day you wake up to find that what was consumed to rabidly and freely is no longer there to be consumed at all.... Or if it is it can only be found at a price level so astronomical as to be unattainable for the average user...
