let's get real guys

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so the original species craze on dA is... well crazy
it's a bunch of young people who don't have rent or food to pay for spending their parent's money on sushi dogs and Tokotas and Minkins and Cinnadogs and Waterdogs and all sorts of things
but it's a bad idea and it's a reALLY UNSAFE MARKET TO BE IN

so let's say you buy a Minkin for $200
that's all well and good, now you have a Minkin that you can draw and have fun with and roleplay and all that cute stuff

but here's the issue: Minkins don't have a trademark
they have no law protecting them from being reproduced by the people who didn't pay for them
the only thing between you and a Minkin-thief is moral obligation
so yeah you BOUGHT the thing for $200... but if I decided to start drawing your Minkin and adopt it as my own, there is literally nothing you can do about it besides get a group of dA artists to come troll me until I delete my account.

and that's what would happen if you REALISED that I took it. Say you paid a pretty penny for a Minkin, or for a Cinnadog or a Tokota or any of the high dollar species out there, $200 or $300 or $400... someone could be using that design and you don't even know, like yeah you sunk the money into it, but there's no way to protect it from other people. you could've just spent that amount of money for someone else to steal your character. it's like someone bumming off of your expensive internet connection and you're paying the $100 monthly bill none the wiser

I just don't get the craze, there's absolutely NO SAFETY in buying any of those things besides just buying it to resell it, maybe at a higher price and making some money off of it

people with money can be silly

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Reenaki's avatar
I KNOW RIGHT! 
Its shocks me how people arent just freely reproducing things that arent theirs and cost money. I though I was on the internet
dont get me wrong,its GOOD,but...its pretty worthless.
In fact,(im not sure about this) your journal mostly talks about DA reproduction,there are loads of other art websites where people can do as they please!
ive only bought one adopt in my whole experience on DA so far,that too only because the artist was struggling to get attention,and was keen to improve,so i wanted to support them
I dont understand how people can just buy like 5000 adoptables. HOW DO YOU KEEP THEM IN CHECK AND MAKE SURE ALL OF THEM ARE USED ACCORDING TO THE MONEY'S WORTH?
the fact that its so incredibly simple to steal these adoptables without knowing of the owner just amazes me. Its incredible useless,and yu most probably will forget that adoptable after like a month or so because you would have bought like 15 other ones.