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I need help!

:iconask-waluigi-time:
~ask-waluigi-time Oct 7, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
(If this is in the wrong forum, please move it)

There's a user here on Deviantart called [link] and she stole art from my Tumblr account ask-waluigi.deviantart.com

[link] Here's a detailed list of what she stole from me, when I posted it on Tumblr and when she posted it in her gallery. Everything I posted on Tumblr, was posted MONTHS before she joined Deviantart. And now she's even using one of my pictures as her DA avatar.

The email to my Tumblr is the same as an old account of mine, which I used to report my art, but nothing has been done, so I made this account to prove that I own the Tumblr account.

I have filed a DMCA claim against her, I have reported my own work and other people have reported her work, but the staff just brush them off by saying "it's in the wrong category", when clicking on the Permission Issues button is NOT the wrong category for reported work. I even contacted the Help Desk admins and they never replied, I only get a cold shoulder and a "Talk to the Hand" response back (figure of speech). The reason I think the staff won't do anything is because she's a Premium Member, but being a premium member does NOT translate out to "This artist is above the law, there's nothing we can do!" God dammit DEVIANTART, having a paying costumer doesn't mean a DAMN thing if their work is stolen!! I want my work GONE from her gallery permanently, and I want her BANNED because she'll obviously never stop stealing. All the staff have done is removing my art from her Featured gallery, but it's still there when you click the browse button, they basically just sweeped it under the rug.

Here's a few comments I got back from the people who reported their work:

" I tried reporting it through the help desk/customer support stuff, but they’ve essentially pawned me off by saying it was filed under the wrong category. They just say to report every piece separately"

"maybe she still didn't delete it? Just out of her gallery? I don’t know. I’ve asked her to delete it, but it’s still there indeed. Just not in the main gallery."

"yeah, all they’ve done is move everything out of the featured gallery. It’s still viewable under Browse. None of it’s been deleted."

"Yeah, a lot of other people are also posting up support to you on the thief’s page. Hopefully DA will ban her. What I find funny is this person is a Paid Member on DA. They are basically paying money to have an account with stolen art…"

"I tried talking to the artthief again and telling her to delete your stuff, but now she tells me to stop talking to her. She just doesn’t understand. 0_0 Do you already have a reply from the DA staff?"

And still nothing have been done by the staff. I am NOT gonna lose this fight, her gallery is gonna be EMPTY and she's going to get BANNED, I'm sick of this shit.

And a while back I made a Trial comic where I asked for cameos as the Audience and Jury, and quite a few people voulenteerd, that page is up in her gallery too, meaning she's not only stealing from me, but other people's characters as well.

[link] Here's her page.

[link] And here's my page with all the cameos listed.

She said she was gonna delete them, but she never did. And the staff won't listen to me or the people who reported my work. All I want is to have my art DELETED FROM HER GALLERY and have her banned for this. Is that too fucking much to ask??
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:iconcartsy112:
Ugh! It's like they don't ban premium members because they will be getting less money! And what exactly is the point of removing the report button from the pages of premium members if the person viewing isn't premium, anyway!? That just SCREAMS "we care more about money than we do fairness!"
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:iconglori305:
"We care more about money than we do about fairness"

Welcome to the world the rest of us live in.
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:iconask-waluigi-time:
~ask-waluigi-time Oct 7, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Seriously....>< It's as unfair as it can be.
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:iconphoenixleo:
This is not the correct place. Go to each deviation stolen and report it stating your work being stolen. Or send them a DMCA notice. And contact the actual artists whose works were stolen and tell them to report the person for their work that was infringed. Not here.
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:iconask-waluigi-time:
~ask-waluigi-time Oct 7, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I've done that too.
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:iconphoenixleo:
Then that's it and wait.
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:iconask-waluigi-time:
~ask-waluigi-time Oct 7, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
[link] This ref-sheet belongs to :iconmayasacha: Published in her gallery September 9, 2010.

[link] And Monsterkitty180 tries to sell it in her store as her own picture, along with MY pictures. Posted in her gallery September 22, 2012 (the devation have been replaced by a painting of HMHS Britannic, which I found on Google and it was originally posted on a Swedish website along with many pictures of the Britannic.)

[link] Which you can see here.

[link] And this comic belongs to :iconblack-rat: ,it's her eight pages long Performance Enhancing Rargh comic, published in her gallery June 28th, 2011. Posted in Monsterkitty's gallery August 21, 2012 (the devation link is replaced by my Waluigi in Court page 1) the original title was The Trial, published on Tumblr August 27th, 2012.

Click on the Prints page of her gallery to see them.
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:iconask-waluigi-time:
~ask-waluigi-time Oct 7, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
[link] More proof that she should get banned, she stole this from another Tumblr user called Silver the Hedgie.

[link] Here's his original post, published in Tumblr four weeks ago. Posted in her gallery today.

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:iconask-waluigi-time:
~ask-waluigi-time Oct 7, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
*There's a user here on Deviantart called Monsterkitty180.

Just had to correct that.
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:iconask-waluigi-time:
~ask-waluigi-time Oct 7, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
*My Tumblr account ask-waluigi.tumblr.com

Correction again...
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