We(Lemmy users) are adblock users and are tired of capitalism that ruined Reddit.
All of us didn’t come here to look at ads again or to entertain capitalist dreams of embedding ads everywhere.
My recommendation is clear, let’s ban watermarked comics and work towards ad free community.
At the end, music don’t have watermarks and neither do art. So why should comics have watermarks?
Linking to the source should be the primary way of attribution.
Counter proposal: ban OP from this community along with anyone else who removes artist trademarks from comics they post.
I’m going to block beep, but they should 100% be banned for being a worthless piece of shit.
Counter counter proposal: ban anyone who use this community to post ads.
hey have you considered changing your handle to ▇▇@▇▇▇▇.org, to stop watermarking your comments? cuz right now, seeing your name, i feel advertised to tbh
You can change the settings of your client to not show usernames and instead show only the name of the community the post is posted in.
Sure. But posting the artist’s name/watermark isn’t an ad, it’s their artwork.
Ban posters who modify artist’s work maliciously to remove attribution.
Do you think seeing the author’s name on the front of a book is also an ad?
OP, do you have some kind of humiliation fetish or why is your take this shit?
Do you think that a painter’s signature on a painting is an ad? If I listen to music and the artist states their name, is that an ad? All of these are just a way of saying “I made this”. They aren’t ads in any meaningful sense of the word.
Bro be like “ew, an ad”:
Literally unbearable to look at with that capitalist garbage in the bottom right corner:
While we could enforce the rule of link being the attribution, as a general rule it’s not what will happen when someone shares anything on the Internet. It will be ripped out of context and posted on random places with zero attribution.
Exhibit A: yourself. Your post history does only occasionally contain links.
Aren’t most of them just a handle or name in the margin? Seems ridiculous to think it ruins your experience somehow. You’re just being actively hostile to artists for some reason.
Nope. I just want an ad free world.
Watermarks protect the actual creator’s stuff from people claiming it as their own work. This is a dumb idea.
As I said, why it doesn’t exist in music and art then?
They do…?
Signatures and watermarks are in almost all works of art.
A watermark on a piece of recorded music is something that is part of the digital composition. It can be in the metadata, it could be in the waveform itself. You’d only see it through analysis of the file.
Same can, and often is, done with video. Even code for software.
A good watermark is one that isn’t obvious, so it can’t be removed or tampered with.
You made a good point… For my argument!
Music don’t contain watermarks that ruin the experience in the work itself.
It’s available in text attribution/ metadata base.
Leave the experience alone out of the attribution.
I am with you and also think we should visit every existing museum and remove the signature from the Artists!!
The sign inside the museum should be enough! Why did we paid for the museum in the first place if we see “Artist ads” like signatures?
Mmmm…
Did the copyright holder (i.e. the artist) give you permission to redistribute their work without attribution? If not, it’s a copyright validation and illegal in most countries.
I’m not really against pirating (you would copy a car), if you are taking from the rich. But that’s not the case here.
And holding back information about the source of the comic is just evil to the readers here.
Easily one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen.
Is the front cover of a book an ad? Are the credits at the end of a movie an ad?
If a signature is an ad, what is it advertising for exactly? Can you define the word “ad” for us? Imagine hating ads so much and literally not knowing what they are.
Artist attribution ≠ Ads
For fucks sake, why you acting like every comic comes with a red “30% off” banner?
This is hands down the most brain dead take I’ve seen today. Congratulations, you’re wrong more than anyone else! 🎉
yeah I remember when they gave me a contract i put my watermark on with an ad of my brand (sometimes called full name).
idiot.
You are against capitalism, and your approach is to remove author attribution, thus fucking small creators. That’s called punching down, and for being so against capitalism, you operate like a good dog.
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