Thanks for Downloading Legally–Don’t Be a Pirate! Bounty on Pirates!
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Don’t be a pirate! Thanks for downloading our freebies and purchasing our products–but please don’t share them. Send people to ScrapMatters to download/purchase their own digi products. Digital piracy has become a big issue recently. There are blogs where people are giving away links to entire kits on 4shared–that is stealing. We try to be very generous with our freebies and gift codes here at ScrapMatters. One of our very talented designers has had so much stuff pirated that she is considering giving up on designing all together. That hurts all of us!!!
For you that don’t know what pirating is, it is copying onto disk, thumb drive etc or uploading to an online data storage facility digital products with the intent of selling them or sharing them with others.
How do people scrap their precious family memories with stolen merchandise (because digital or not–kits are merchandise), it is just unfathomable to me.
When you download a kit, you are downloading the right to use that kit for your personal scrapbooking, not to do whatever you want to with it. Now some people have this misguided notion that scrapbook designers make a lot of money–there may be a few who do, but most of us would just be happy to break even on our expenses and make enough for date night or to pay the doctor bill!
Shoplifting is a crime! And so is uploading and/or downloading digital files with the intent of sharing them with anyone–your mom, your kid, your best friend!
So for all of you honest scrappers out there–please show your support of the designers and the digital scrapbook industry as a whole. Click on the “Stop Digital Piracy” graphic above and go check out the Stop Digital Piracy Blog. Snag one of their blinkies and post it on your blog. Comment on this post with a link to your blog and I will give you a $2.50 gift code to ScrapMatters.
If you come across a blog that is sharing illegal links please notify the designers so they can bring legal action against the pirates. If you come across any links from any of the designers at ScrapMatters please email me andilynn at scrapmatters dot com and let me know–please include the blog url. You will receive a generous bounty!
Thanks for choosing the right and downloading legally.
