#icon theft

[roleplayingconfessionsfromrpers]

I've found that most of the people that use the "icons don't belong to you because they're made from screen caps!!!" bs are the ones that steal them in the first place. Using that logic all of those amazing manips out there don't belong to the people that made them and are free for the taking. Most icon makers offer their icons to the public and alot of them have already quit making icons because of assholes that don't know how to respect their wishes. Don't abuse it.

[roleplayingconfessionsfromrpers]

It bothers me when people get so possessive over cropped icons as if they are art work. You screen capped and cropped someone else's work. Even if you throw a filter or watermark on it, it still doesn't make it your work? Two people could theoretically make the exact same icon and accuse the other of stealing. (this is obviously excluding hand drawn icons.)

[badformroleplay]

Bad Form: Icon theft

nivanssniper has stolen a large number of icons from another user and posted them as their own.  It was requested the icons be taken down but never were.

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Post from nivanssniper:

Art theft is not cool in the least.