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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CoffeeBean
MemberWhy is everyone doing straight-up knock off MDF pictures?
Lance Armstrong
Janitorit's the sincerest form of flattery
Mdf
MemberWhat? I heard my name...
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Yes lol I know our names share the same initials. One of us is a really great artist, the other... just simply likes their art... :/
EpicGuy43
MemberHow is it a knock off to have a similar shading style? There were many artist both before and after him to use a shading/coloring style like this, he doesn't get to claim it as his own. :V
CoffeeBean
MemberI am not saying that he HAS claimed it, but the fact that his art is extremely popular within the community and the fact that all of this artist's recent works CLOSELY match the style is what makes it a copy.
I'm certainly not saying it's bad, hell, it's good. MDF himself doesn't put out a shitload of content, so we have artists like this guy (or gal) to thank for adopting, or copying, the style so that more MDF glory can be spread.
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