Ein trauriger Tag (Oder: Bitte seid fair!)
Today is the very sad day that I always knew I’d be facing one day. But when it does happen it still feels pretty bad. Today is the day when I discovered that my designs have been posted on a Russian file sharing website (Yandex) for others to download 🙁 . I always knew that – in spite of the fact that I beg people in every single freebie post to play fair and not redistribute and share images from my designs – there are still those who don’t care about all the hard work that has gone into creating these scrapbook designs; those who’ll try to take advantage no matter what. It is a very frustrating and disappointing feeling (especially because I’m generous enough to freely share my designs; and all that people have to do is to simply send their friends and blog readers here to mistyhilltops.com if they want others to enjoy these freebies, too). I never understand how this can be so hard, and I’d like to once more appeal to everyone: Please respect your designers. Please respect other people’s terms of use. Please do not share any things you have no rights to share. And please show some respect to your fellow scrappers, who would like to continue having access to free digital scrapbooking products.
And to those of you who do pay attention to my terms of use, I’d like to express my thanks for respecting and honoring my (and other designers’) work.
Heute ist der traurige Tag, von dem ich schon lange wußte, dass er irgendwann kommt. Aber, wenn er dann kommt, ist es trotzdem ziemlich übel. Heute ist der Tag, an dem ich festgestellt habe, dass meine Scrapbookdesigns auf einer russischen Online Tauschbörse (Yandex) hochgeladen sind, wo andere sich dann munter dran bedienen können. Ich habe schon immer gewusst, dass trotzdem ich in jedem meiner Freebie Artikel darum bettle, fair zu sein und meine Dateien und Grafiken nicht weiterzugeben oder mit anderen zu teilen, es immer noch Leute gibt, die sich nicht darum scheren, wie viel harte Arbeit in solchen Scrapbook Kits steckt. Leute, die die Großherzigkeit anderer auf ihre Kosten ausnutzen. Es ist ein sehr frustrierendes Gefühl und eine große Enttäuschung, wenn man es herausfindet (vor allem, da ich ja großzügig genug bin, meine Designs freigiebig mit allen zu teilen; wenn man meine Designs mit anderen teilen möchte, braucht man seine Freunde und Blog Besucher ja nur hierher zu mistyhilltops.com schicken.) Ich werde wohl nie verstehen, was daran so schwierig sein kann und möchte noch einmal an meine Leser appellieren: Bitte respektiert eure Designer! Bitte respektiert die Nutzungsrechte anderer. Bitte teilt nichts mit anderen, wenn ihr nicht die Rechte dafür besitzt! Und bitte zeigt anderen Scrappern gegenüber Respekt, die gerne auch weiterhin Freebies sammeln möchten.
Und denjenigen, die meine Nutzungsbedingungen achten, möchte ich meinen Dank ausdrücken. Danke, dass ihr meine Designs und die Kreationen andere Designer achtet und respektiert!
Awww, I’m sorry it happened to you! I don’t care much about “big companies” being pirated, but in digiscrapping you KNOW the designers you’re hurting. Especially when someone offers freebies, and fabulous quality ones as you do, the minimum thing you can do is respect them. Again, sorry for you, Sula!
I’m so, so sorry to hear about this dear Sula. It is indeed unfair and not right. I wish I could do something like magically make these people and organizations disappear. It always upsets me to hear about how they take advantage of very generous people like yourself. I don’t know what to say. Terribly sorry :o(
I just feel awful when I hear any of my favorite designers have had this happen, and like the comment above wishI could do do something to show how much those of us who do play by the rules appreciate what you do and are indeed grateful and happy to what I call “play” with them:) Thank you again for all the wonderful kits I’ve looked forward to Friday’s now for months and also use that time to catch up on your stories, other happenings, tutorials, etc.Thank you again:)
Grrrr .. it makes me sooooo mad that people do this!! It is bad enough if they reshare, but even worse if they pretend it is their work!! It takes a long time and a lot of effort to make these scrap kits .. I can understand how frustrated and disappointed it must make you feel. I hope Karma comes along one day and gives them a big slap down 🙁
I am sorry to hear that your kits are being shared. You are so good to generously share your designs and it just doesn’t make sense that people feel a need not to respect your terms when it’s simple just to come to your site.
i was so sorry to hear that someone would take advantage of your extreme generosity like that. I for one truly appreciate the kindness of your sharing with others. I hope that you can put a stop to it and that they will be exposed for the greedy people that they are.