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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MarikAzemus
MemberIf you don't want to pledge then don't. I'm not forcing your hand. Just don't be rude.
Khanco
MemberI couldn't *not* read Sonic's line in his voice and it made it ten times better
Dakota the Fox
MemberDid anyone else read "Chillaxin at my best bro's pad like a baller" In Abridged Alucard's voice?
MarikAzemus
MemberThat's where I drew the line from. I figured it would fall in line with Sonic's classic 'too cool for school' attitude, and Knuckles' simple mind.
Zoner
MemberRouge's tits really aren't that big here to warrant that redirection, knux. lmao
Felicity Longis
MemberSays the guy who's FNAF avatar is by an artist with a donations page.
tkongingi
MemberYou mean there's a market for drawings of characters that are well liked by millions of people?
I'm shocked.
Persoxer1
MemberWell he is right those wings are pretty big
MarikAzemus
MemberI see. You make a valid point. But it's still my artwork, my ideas, my style, and the events that occur are of my creation. If Sega doesn't have a problem with it, and there's a demand for erotic Sonic artwork, I see no reason not to profit off of it.
HDHorse1
MemberSPIT ON THE UNBELIEVER! CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK
tadpolegaming
MemberCLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK
HelloYesThisIsDog
Membera valid point I suppose but under the Fair use law this is still a transformative work meaning none of that matters. You can use other copyrighted characters to your financial gain so long as you can actually do something transformative with those characters. By your logic Team Four Star should never be allowed to profit off of doing what they love to the point of actually getting jobs at Funimation (which, they have now by the way.)
Also please don't be a dick. Nobody likes a dick in their face when they aren't asking for it.
HelloYesThisIsDog
MemberForgot to mention, the only thing I disapprove of is Boom KNuckles being smart enough to remember something
user 201577
MemberWell i dont mean to be mean, but they do care. It's just honestly would be too much money and effort to sue a guy at a time out of the thousands of people who make work like this that the rewards they reap would not be worth it to gain the possible few thousands to their millions.(no offense, i still love your work.)
Its why we can get away with it cause yes we are breaking the law its just not worth it and can hurt a businesses reputation if a company attacked its fans. So were tolerable for that reason.
Heck i tried doing this exact thing its just laziness took over. If i continued i'd can possibly make a small amount of money especially when the copyright fan base is so massive and the company wouldn't bother with it unless you became too big of a name. *cough* mlp *cough*
Short story if your small time go for it. If you make it big with your art. You might need to dial it back or get permission or make another acount and continue work their and make some of your original content on the popular account.
FoxyBomb
Member“flashback, yo”
Peacefulgangsta
MemberSimple minded motherfucker. Go find a grave and bury yourself
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