I did a search on Photobucket under my name and found this:

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I never thought I'd see the day when my crappy artwork would be stolen. What upsets me the most is that they're posing them as an example of Ellen Schreiber's characters from "Vampire Kisses."

Okay, Puzzle's a weed-smoking vampire and he doesn't look or act ANYTHING like the human jock, Trevor. Also, Alexander's a goth vampire from Romania and he's obviously not an Asian punk kid.-___-+ I'm a huge fan of the VK series, yes, but it's my artwork and frankly I don't like it being used in that manner and I'm sure Mrs. Schreiber would agree with me if she knew about this.

I'm fucking pissed about it and I'm going to fix the problem. None of this, "Oh, you shouldn't be mad at them for that, it's Photobucket."

Yeah, and part of their g*ddamn policy is to discourage the upload of copyrighted materials. My damn copyright is pasted all over that image!>o<+ They should have asked me permission first, I don't authorize the use or upload of my artwork elsewhere without consent.

I'm hardly surprised by the choice of image stolen; Taku and Puzzle's picture is the most popular image in my gallery for whatever reason. I also found an icon that I made of Ban from "GetBackers" during the search. That was the only other image. I don't mind that because I made them for other people to use anyway, but my personal artwork is a different matter; I'm a bit more territorial about that.



I thought that by slapping a watermark on my images and uploading them as JPEG again so that people might save and print them out for their own enjoyment would deter douche monkeys from doing this, but apparently not. Some dumbfuck had to go screw that up for everyone.

From now on, ALL of my images will be going back to PNG format and staying that way. I'm not putting up with this crap. As soon as I get back from Florida, reformatting the images in my gallery will be the first thing I fucking do.





Feel free to help me in my assistance of having this image removed from the alleged theft's album. The timing couldn't be worse for me right now and there's not much that I can do for a few days, but rest assured, as God as my witness I'll be back with avengeance...