Pay site using freely available and stolen work

[sci.livejournal.com]

Hi, I joined just to make this post really, as I've been advised this is the right place to put it.

Stumbled across this the other day though while googling for "bunny girls" sometime deep in the AM.

They're both obstensivly "free" sites, but they require a sexkey.com pass, which charges $39.95 every month after a 3 day trial.
So someone's potentially making lots of money off the following artists freely available and purchacable work. That pisses me off.

I don't know enough names to put them to all the images, but I'm sure folk here could ID a lot more of the artists being stolen from.

http://furryhentaiporn.com/
Visibly contains:

Dr Comet
Scappo
Lil Blue Wolf

http://yiffhentaiporn.com/
Visibly contains: (only looked through the first 5 example pages)

Nanimoose
Jim Hardiman
Furball
Max Blackrabbit
Ashtoreth
Ksharra
Chochi
Devilkitten
Zaush
Keihound
Jessica Elwood
tsampikos
psuedomanitou
Dark Natasha
Nekodrone
Os
Dark Nekogami
Showkaizer
Fisk (notably items from the portfolios/collections sold through his own site)
Kamicheetah

Unsuprisingly, both domains have their whois information hidden by http://privacyprotect.org/, so any complaints would need to be made through them.

I'm unsure wether artists should complain individually, or try en-mass to get the sites shut down. Thoughts? Possibly demanding the contact info from privacyprotect so the issue can be raised more directly?

Comments

[armaina.livejournal.com]

Make complaints to the hosting companies and to the domain registrars about the copyright infringement.

Both domains use the same host, and they can be contacted at:
abuse@layeredtech.com

[jackalkisses.livejournal.com]

I also see Meesh, Malachi, Fossil, BA, Sepp, DoDeDo, MicahFennec, Arphalia, and Inuki....

It doesn't seem there's any way to contact the webmaster so a petition may be in order or we may have to mass e-mail the SexKey people to try to get through to someone more relevant.
Although, it's most likely futile. The internet's a pretty lawless place and this is the risk artists take when posting their art online.

[tehjos.livejournal.com]

Huskie, ShinigamiGirl, Ashryn, BlueFreak, Blotch, WolfyNail and Wookiee also spotted... *sigh* Sites like these are a real pain.

[bloodhoundomega.livejournal.com]

Nimrais' and Caribou's art is in there, too. >_O

[thaily.livejournal.com]

Also Fred Perry, Jeremy Mullins and Micah Fennec.

[matcha-tan.livejournal.com]

Dr. Comet, Neolucky, Palcomix, tojyo, Clubstripes, and K'sharra too...

[wolf-goat.livejournal.com]

Also seeing Moonstalker, Huskie666, Korrok...

[rileycostello.livejournal.com]

That's ridiculous. D:

I also find it funny that the post asking about starfinder got more comments than this.

Sad world we live in, yeah? where people have to rip off either other peoples' art, or photos.

Are we sure these sites aren't run by Sibe? lolololol

XD

[fyremane.livejournal.com]

last I heard was Sibe was in Jail, unless hes finished his time.

[fyremane.livejournal.com]

also spotted Jim hardimens work

[rileycostello.livejournal.com]

I was kidding. :P

Last *I* heard he was out on parole, but I don't really care either way. Was just making a funny. -_-

[ksharra.livejournal.com]

Well, these sites are definitely better than the last ones I saw that posted my work. Those sites were posting the OLD black and white stuff that was too crappy for me to continue hosting on my own websites and were obviously ripped from the /images folder on my site, where forgotten images lay unlinked... XD

At least with these sites, it appears you're paying for the service of someone else going out and picking up decent furry porn and putting it all in one location. Though they definitely shouldn't be showing art that's not freely available (SexyFur and other paysite work, for example).

[allykat.livejournal.com]

Artonis is in there too. What rat bastards.

This is the first thing that's ever made me spiteful enough to want to download an auto refresher and organize a bandwidth attack. Thanks for the post and the contact info in the comments. I couldn't find it.

[siridean.livejournal.com]

Has this been resolved? I know I see the site still up, but wouldn't the original artists at least like to know and do something about this?