So, all of you who work with resources on deviantART will probably know that a website by the name of "Gulfson" has been taking our own resources, and re-distributing them without credit or links. This is completely wrong, obviously. I found all 9 of my PSD's on there recently, and I even marked one of my latest with an anti-Gulfson logo. He still took them, and re-distributed them.

I was lucky enough to have a good friend find the email address of the owner of Gulfson. So, I had a chat with him. I won't display the chat log here, for certain reasons.

Anyway, I kindly asked him if he'd take our resources down.
He said he'd take mine down, but I refused and asked him to take all of the 100's of resources that dA's members own down, he then refused completely.
I tried to ask politely, but his cocky attitude has dug himself deeper.

So, plan of action:

Me and a kind helper, =Ayelie-stock (Any volunteers, go ahead, and note links to me please), are going to plough through the categories of Gulfson, and try and get as many of your resources linked back to you, so you can complain to the company who hosts this website. It's going to take a bit more than a day, I'd imagine, but I'll link as much of your stuff as I can in a news article or journal. It's then up to you if you want your resources back and this website shut down for good. There are plenty of things this man has done wrong; copyright infringement, re-distributing, not crediting, lack of permission, etc etc. I think any host would tolerate a website that's done so much bad.

If you want to keep updated on this, then look out for anything Gulfson related in dA's news in the next few days.

Now's your chance. If you're a .PSD, brush, pattern, style, texture, action, custom shape, or general resource artist, please consider this.

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