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2018-01-31 03:16:34 UTC  

Isis leader: Al-bag-daddy

2018-01-31 04:00:34 UTC  

Did anyone watch the dem rebuttal?

2018-01-31 04:23:21 UTC  

nope, how was it?

2018-01-31 04:38:57 UTC  

it was terribe. all they did was ramble about how Blumpf needs to get impeached while crying into their pussy hats

2018-01-31 04:46:10 UTC  

Terrible but entertaining to watch. Kennedy is really low energy and he was drooling the whole time.

2018-01-31 04:50:10 UTC  

Hope the Dems try pushing him for presidency.

2018-01-31 04:50:43 UTC  

same, it'd be a freakshow

2018-01-31 06:27:33 UTC  

What rebuttal?

2018-01-31 06:30:52 UTC  

Though id rather not watch, not a fan of watching leftists "argue". It just makes me irritated.

2018-01-31 06:57:03 UTC  

Thanks.

2018-01-31 08:22:50 UTC  

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2018-01-31 08:55:46 UTC  

Was the only source a democrat in a closed door meeting in which all other participants do not recall hearing it?

2018-01-31 09:01:11 UTC  

Also, Jordan Peterson had another talk on the Joe Rogan podcast.

2018-01-31 09:11:46 UTC  

Thank you my friend.

2018-01-31 09:12:07 UTC  

Just finished it.

2018-01-31 14:17:35 UTC  

@Good can you not spam the same thing in 6 channels?

2018-01-31 15:52:50 UTC  

Alright so yeah, like I mentioned earlier; I'm no journalist (or lawyer), but it would be awesome if someone with better credientals looked into this. Could be a huge thing. And also, possible that every non-artist don't give a shit but yeah.

https://www.minds.com/blog/view/801063297186443264

Basically to summarize it:
There are multiple "Artwork designers" on the Steam platform that takes artworks out of Google, Deviantart and uses non-commercial templates and/or stock footage in their artworks which they sell for CS:GO keys, or money. One of them is this guy who I reference in the article, he's I think one of Steams largest "artwork designers" currently, but he takes his artworks from Google and Deviantart and sells them for 5-25 CS:GO keys.

Now I'm an artist, and I've had to file DMCA claims when people have stolen my identity on Steam and that has been taken care of quickly. But there are probably hundreds of artists like this on Steam: and the friends politics are strong there, protecting those "artwork designers" who are friends etc.

Most designers, after they found out I wrote the article now claims they only charge for "animating" the picture. But they still give no cut to the main artist.

Here are some further proof of them verifying they take from Google, and people covering it up for them when reporting them to groups:
https://i.imgur.com/eKnnTgX.png
https://i.imgur.com/xUR8Oxw.png

Admins feel free to remove if something.

2018-01-31 15:56:21 UTC  

people stealing artwork isn't new

2018-01-31 15:56:46 UTC  

nothing you can really do about it but reverse image search gets better and better every day

2018-01-31 15:57:13 UTC  

Well, of course not. But I've sent in proof to Valve about their existence, that they even admit to taking artworks from Google and nothing has been done.

2018-01-31 15:57:54 UTC  

valve has banned a few artists so they are certainly aware

2018-01-31 15:58:04 UTC  

the most notable example is the M4A4 howl in CS:GO

2018-01-31 15:58:16 UTC  

Only if it's CS:GO related, not profile related, unfortunately.

2018-01-31 15:58:49 UTC  

i've reported people for impersonation and successfuly got them a steam community ban

2018-01-31 15:59:14 UTC  

but when it comes to putting someone else's modified art on your profile that's completely fair use

2018-01-31 15:59:21 UTC  

The artists in question which I'm referring to has not been banned. One got banned for a while, but cmanaged to slither out of it.

2018-01-31 15:59:23 UTC  

Oh lemme find one.

2018-01-31 15:59:48 UTC  

I don't know if this is fair use or not.

2018-01-31 15:59:59 UTC  

It certainly don't seem like it.

2018-01-31 16:00:01 UTC  

that is 100% fair use

2018-01-31 16:00:59 UTC  

I'm not entirely sure about that. The artists which have done a DMCA on the artists works when they've found their own there has been able to get it done successfully.

2018-01-31 16:01:13 UTC  

Taking someones artwork, cropping it and pasting it on a Steam background doesn't seem like fair use to me. 🤷

2018-01-31 16:01:16 UTC  

But I'm no lawyer.

2018-01-31 16:01:22 UTC  

that's not a simple crop

2018-01-31 16:01:36 UTC  

they replaced the background, added text, and animated it

2018-01-31 16:01:51 UTC  

just changing the background would pass as fair use in court

2018-01-31 16:02:06 UTC  

But they didn't create the main image though. The background is a background from the Steam community marketplace.

2018-01-31 16:02:07 UTC  

as far as valve and DMCA, they can do whatever they want