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.
Please, help us get the word out by letting others know about this issue.
For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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DrachenFyr
MemberQuick note for those wondering - I'm the original commissioner, Nex gave me permission to upload the full res versions along with the new Blaziken pics. ^^
ginkei
MemberYour commissions are great!
DiddleDopper
Memberdisclaimer: am sober not.
why do you need permission to share something you paid for?
DrachenFyr
MemberThankies ^^
Because some artists want to keep the high res versions private, because they do patreon or art packs or similar. You'll see it mentioned in a bunch of artist TOS's.
IMO? High res versions should always be for public viewing, the typical 1280px is way too low for modern screens. I only commission artists who let me upload full res versions these days.
DiddleDopper
Membergood.
i find it to be a huge dick move to restrict commissioners like that just so they can make more money (COUGH Danza, blitzdrachen, etc.)
i wonder how this would hold up in court?
Surya Ramadhan
Memberso much love... but nobody play Dota2 :(
jonnyawsom3
Memberthe worst thing i find that an artist can do is upload the picture with "web" or "small" in it's filename (mainly talking about FA here), because then i know that a bigger version exists, and that for one reason or another, i'll probably never see it
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