Here we go again, to quote Ronald Reagan during a debate against Walter Mondale in, um, oh a long time ago (1980)..... =skydancer-stock sent a link via note of a Korean website featuring clearly stolen art from deviantART. SkyDancer had received a note from =justalittleknotty, whose own work is on the site. Again, as with the last time, the deviant name remains in the title of the work being posted, so it is easily found.

Every so often I Google my screen name to see where my deviations have ended up. I get bored after perusing a few pages of what comes up in the search, but it does amaze me just how far and wide my deviations have gone, even though my art isn't anything special.

Korean Drama is the website in question. Right off the bat I see devs I recognize from =skydancer-stock, then devs from ~gild-a-stock and stock from the gallery of ~GillianStock. Checking my own screen name (yes, using the search on the site typing in your own screen name will bring up all your ripped works) I found items from my stock site, as well as traditional art from my `WDWParksGal site. One stock is a recent posting, so I know the site owner must check deviantART often. Also, I typed in =thefantasim and sure enough, here are her works! If I typed names I could think of all night long, I wonder if they would all come up revealing ripped art????

I find this a bit scary; when I looked up my daughter's screen name I found a variety of items from her sites, including her devID. It is a conundrum as to why the site would include her or any ID.

I wonder if `Casperium can get an award for the most stolen deviations? Or perhaps that award should actually go to `briannacherrygarcia who has nearly 13,000,000 (uh-huh... 13 million) pageviews and a bazillion stolen art pieces ; however, I digress: Every time I turn around it seems I find a stolen nebula work from my dA friend a fellow CV when I was a volunteer. Great talent creates great art theft.

Please check the site to see if any of YOUR work has been stolen. Each time I thought of a screen name, art and/or stock for that person came up in the search. The site must be huge, and I could NOT find any place to file a complaint. The site has its own copyright at the bottom of each page. Bastard.

(=KV-Arts said that tattooingtattoodesigns has stolen two of her tattoo designs with her new screen name along with eleven from her old name. If you're a tattoo artist, be sure to check the site; however, be warned: The contact link just sends you back to the front page!)

{`Casperium says the Korean site may be a scam to sell ads ~ could the site be interconnecting to deviantART using a script of some sort to connect the two sites? The ads are the "hunt that person down" type of ads. Frightening!}

The following is what =justalittleknotty came up with trying to find the source of the site when =skydancer-stock asked her if there was any way to DCMA the site (^Elandria has providing additional info!:

"I cant find one. But I did trace the server:
Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars.

Domain Name: DRAMAKOREATERBARU.COM
Registrar: NAME.COM LLC
Whois Server: whois.name.com
Referral URL: [link]
Name Server: NS3.SOPWER.COM
Name Server: NS4.SOPWER.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 27-aug-2012
Creation Date: 08-apr-2011
Expiration Date: 08-apr-2013

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