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This is clever, especially considering our current and lasting copyright focus. And its also good in that its the take on AWCY that they aren't crazy, evil people…they just want to make people happy and let them enjoy art…well, their brand or anart, anyway. I like it +1
Nothing about the writing by itself bothers me here, but what does is what it says about the GoI in question, or rather what it doesn't. It's just the same AWCY article we've seen far too many times for my taste, with them being all subversive to traditional art, throwing an anomalous effect with a message to the mix, and calling it a day. It just doesn't work for me at this point.
That actually doesn't bother me, per se. AWCY is presumably a pretty big group, and some subgroups within it will make more effort or behave differently than others. Furthermore, not all of them are going to be doing huge, world-fucking projects. This one works for me.
Now, my main issue is that I'm not sure what you're doing with Alexylva here. I love the idea of different users bringing their own headcanon into it, but do you have some idea of a) how AWCY got access to a Universiverse piece of artwork, b) how the Universiverse's equivalent of the Patents and Trademarks Office heard of it, c) how they sent a letter to the Foundation site where it was being held, and d) why they care about the Foundation's role in containing it? More specifically, why is the Foundation getting the cease-and-desist rather than AWCY?
a) "SPECIAL THANKS TO BRIAN_29 FOR THE ORIGINAL SOURCE"; i.e. Someone from the Alexylverse (BRIAN_29) provided it to AWCY to "crack".
b) Alexylva U's art department could stick antipiracy tracking stuff in their creative works, in the same way some cracked software still reports back to a server when they're installed or running. It's probably memetic or something.
c) If they've got tracking stuff, they'd have noticed a big group of "cracked" artwork at Site-39.
d) Who receives more cease-and-desist notices, cracking groups or torrent sites? The torrent sites do, because they're the ones hosting it. Similarly, the Foundation's the one "exhibiting" the cracked artworks, so they're the ones who would receive the cease-and-desist.
…not that I know anything about torrenting cracked software or anything.
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I used to have a lot of cracked computer games when I was a kid, so I found that pretty amusing (it was not uncommon to keep a shitty game just because it had a great crack intro). But overall it felt a bit simplistic and didn't take the idea very far. It seems rather pointless to have obviously counterfeit pieces of art when you can get reproductions anywhere. I think this idea could be more effectively used for something else, but I don't have suggestions right now. Neutral vote for me.
are not known to have existed in any form.
This seems to imply that they are not from this world, when there are millions of art pieces in existence that nobody heard about except those who made them. I would just say something like ''previously unknown'' and let the reader use their imagination.
This is me as well. Classic works, forged or not, combined with the cracktros I've seen for most of my life, equals too much cheese to consume.
It seems rather pointless to have obviously counterfeit pieces of art when you can get reproductions anywhere.
Yes. I'd love it if this article made these more than just copies in an interesting way, though I'm out of ideas about what that could be.
SCP-1617 CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES HACKED BY *PIMP_MASTA*
I will find a way to upvote this comment.
I think I missed the interesting part?
if your reading this your gay
I upvoted, but the last bit… sigh. I'm really tired of EVERYONE and their mother knowing how to anonymously mail the Foundation.
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