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So here's what has happened with nipe, if anyone is interested...
kittybones26:
I think it is a bunch of horseshit that you guys spend your own time and effort to contribute covers to this site....and then this dirtbag downloads your work and sells it for a profit claiming these covers are his own.
Post away on his youtube clips.....they will likely be marked as spam and deleted though.
WolfAlmighty:
I wonder if they realise, or even care, that they're going to end up being responsible for their own demise by not even giving credit to the artists that are doing their cases. If cover artists stop doing work because of this they'll have no new covers coming. Although, they can continue to sell the ones they've already downloaded and make money, I suppose. I'm astonished that people are actually buying these, to be honest.
I should start selling these things on ebay also, undercut these jackasses and sell them at cost, and put a big link and paragraph full of info about TCP on each auction page. Maybe that will at least get the message out to the ebayers who are actually buying their stuff.
AppleQueso:
Looking through their blog and everything, these guys go far beyond your typical ebay reseller. This is kind a big thing for them.
I sent them an email, hopefully they respond courteously and abide by the pretty reasonable (I think) request to simply provide credit. I suspect they'll just ignore me, but we'll see.
nipe:
UncleBob commented about the artwork being available here on the youtube vids and they were marked as spam. Classy :(
AppleQueso:
Seriously though, I really don't think you should stop contributing just because a bunch of hack entrepreneurs are selling your work at grossly inflated prices.
Who actually buys from these people anyway? I can't imagine their sales are all that great.
This stuff simply happens. You can't do anything about it, and even if you succeed in getting these guys to give us credit or if they go under, there are still other sellers who do the exact same thing and refuse to give us credit. I think the very nature of what we do all but guarantees that someone will try and profit off of it.
Truthfully, I think it's a bit unfair for you to withhold content from our community due to the actions of a completely unrelated entity that we have zero control over and can do absolutely nothing about. I'm actually a little worried that this might incite some members to act in ways that will reflect poorly on our site in order to take 'revenge'.