Note to Ruthless: Unfortunately the people who don't get it after the first fifty times still don't get it even when you speak slowly and loudly.
While the point from Ruthless is important the comment which precipitated it also implied that Dov was somehow ripping off artists. It basically said he stole a product from others and retailed it.
Artists know OW is a subscription site. Dov let artists know about the change and a few asked their sets be removed. Dov honored their wishes.
Dov does not prowl the web looking for sets to steal. People send him sets to post on OW, knowing it is a subscription site, because
a. they consider it an honor to have their work there.
b. they want to support OW.
c. they are hoping to earn a subscription.
Some artists have made sets which explicitly say they are ONLY for distribution at OW. That is the artist's choice, not Dov's suggestion.
While people have stolen sets to send to OW Dov takes extraordinary care to identify and remove these sets. If the artist doesn't want them at OW Dov doesn't want them at OW.
All of which is simply to say, Dov has high regard for the wishes of artists. This may be the reason artists want to support OW. Sets at OW are there because the artist sent them in, knowing it was a subscription site.
Posted on Aug 17, 2002, 8:12 AM from IP address 12.75.170.192