Do you think this is cool??? What's the rule here?

did nobody think to freaking watermark these things???

Won't help, not worth the trouble. There's always someone who's going to do something like this. In this community the best we can do is just call them out. Watermarking the images on the legit for sale page won't really even slow this kind of person down, so what's the point in making it harder for buyers to see what they are buying?
 
I never felt the need to watermark the jpgs or pngs. I kind of felt this was amongst friends. :)
 
Just to play the devils advocate BUT......Whats the difference between someone doing this and selling 60-1 cards? Also, its not like you own the rights to DK3 in the first place. Even if you did change something on it, it still has the DK3 logo etc. I think this is quite a double standard.

You don't need to play devil's advocate. All involved understand our rights. We are not fooling ourselves and are quite grounded in reality. It's not a double standard. It's annoying.
 
id be pissed. just saying. a collector is doing us a favor, not a developer spending thousands making a game to literally make a profit.
 
I dont think he's chinese and should know better :D
anyone that sells Dk art or any arcade art is in the know, at least enogh to know
and theres no way to know if he bought mine and just scanned it or pulled the image off here. Id have to go back to the orginal thread and look to see if John ever had anything posted large enough for someone to pull that off..

though your right weather its art or IP its a copyright infridged on a copyright.

FYI BLKDOG watermark your Popeye before its too late :D

I just deleted all the pngs off of my server. :)
 
So would it be wrong of me to buy one for 2.50?

Just sayin'...they're awesome and I love DK3. :p

What? You know SOMEONE was gonna say it. :)
 
im serious, you spent the time on this, watermark it hardcore, then ship em clean lol

A watermark on Rich and John's photos doesn't keep someone from buying it, scanning it, taking a photo of it, and then selling the damn thing like they were the genius that came up with it. Which, by the way, is what most of the inkjetters do with all the reproduction screen printed artwork.

Is it sad and very shady, no matter who "owns" the rights to any of the artwork.
 
From talking with the seller, he seems to think that it was an official Nintendo item and not something created by someone else.
 
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