April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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SapperDragon
MemberAh, the infamous porn trace.
IncredibleEdibleEgg
Member"the" implying only one traced picture.
Broseidon
Memberbecause everything ever is 100% original, and not in any way ever similar to anyone else's work.
Picasso wasn't an idiot, you know.
Lewdcarcanine
Memberto quote a post on the black and white version of this *ahem*
"YAAAAAAAHHHH!!"
"WAAAUUUUGGHHH!!!"
Achmed
MemberIt's amazing how people are quick to attack some relatively unknown artist for tracing, but when it's someone who's well known and popular, they dismiss it as "it's just one pic plus can you prove it?", without even wondering is it really just one pic, and did the artist actually trace before?
Amaru
MemberIf I remember the drama correctly, someone did a Flash showing the Porn overlayed with this image and it was almost spot on. And frankly, the internet masses be damned, if I catch tracing and can prove it. I call it
Chosso
MemberI love how people call trace, and give no evidence.
In fact the one time someone actually DID give evidence it was on a WIP, someone ELSE had traced the WIP and added finishing details. Everyone thought the WIP was the traced thing!!!
But then the WIP turned out to be 3 years before the otehr image.
tl;dr PROOF OR GTFO
Ratty
MemberLol this has already been proven.
And the proof was so total the artist even admitted to it as I recall. Citing timing restraints as an excuse.
Don't forget this is a piece that money was charged for. Personally I find the lazily redone photo background almost as bad. And I can't remember, was it Scappo who stole backgrounds from Serious Sam?
Lir
BlockedToo bad most popular artists pretty much trace, or borrow heavily from pictures to get the anatomy right, all the time.
SapperDragon
MemberAh, here it is: http://img.tgfb.net/real/src/130203288658.gif
Never thought I'd come across it ever again.
themoron
MemberIf I were paying for it I would be a little perturbed about it, but in all honesty, ESPECIALLY when coming to fap material, there is enough difference between the two that they are separate. Not that it was right, it's just i like that both exist.
ColdWolfSong
MemberSaying "Do Not Distribute" only serves to get it distributed.
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