Forgot about uploading this, so I'll put it up now.

I have lost so much respect for so many artists who have their work stolen and then proceed to do any or all of the following:

1) Write a long ranty journal that gives links to the stolen work. There's nothing wrong with a simple: "Hey, my art's being uploaded by someone other than myself without permission, and, just so you know, these are my only galleries."

2) Send hate mail or flame the "artist" who used their art without permission or encourage other people to flame them.

3) Call out their hordes of fans to go and do battle against this mighty evil. Seriously, guys, involving five hundred teenagers does not help matters.

4) Post links to the stolen work. Sometimes this is strictly necessary, most of the time it isn't.

5) Complaining. Whining about your stuff being posted somewhere else is a lot less effective than writing a formal letter of complaint to the administrator or moderator of the site.

So, feel free to put this in your journal/shoutboard/whatever. Please leave a comment if you do use it, I like to sit and look at my stuff on other people's pages.

Much thanks to $zilla774 for the very useful stamp template.