Take a wild, friggin guess wrote:
> I recently received an e-mail from Second Ed stating that some of
>the folks who are buying my artwork from him are less than happy with
>the kind of paper it is being printed on now. For those of you who
>do not know, the paper I'm using for my folios costs about 45 bucks a
>ream, a cost which I have not passed on to either Ed or to the
>consumer. The paper is a very pale grey/offwhite stock which
>incorporates a certain safety feature: any attempt to scan or copy
>the image will result in the text "COPY COPY COPY" appearing all over
>the picture.
>
*snipped the yadda yadda*
I'm not trying to sound like the lone asshole here, but I don't
understand all of the messages saying, "Oh yeah! Stick with it no matter
what!"
I don't think that doing what you can to protect your copyright is a
bad, evil thing, and I think that paying for the cost of this special
paper yourself is pretty noble and considerate. However, I do think that
this situation asks the question, what do you care about more?
Preventing theft or customer satisfaction? If legitimate customers are
complaining about the paper, then maybe it's not the greatest idea. It
reminds me of DRM, or macrovision, or Steam, or that stuff that Sony
Music recently got in trouble for. If the quality of the product is
suffering from the copy protection, it might hurt sales just as much as
the piracy. I'm not saying that your copy-proof paper is affected that
severely, but I do think that this issue isn't a no-brainer clear
choice. And you probably didn't think so either, considering that you're
asking for input. So, ya know... I would say that it really depends on
how many people are complaining and how unhappy those people are with
the prints. Not to mention your own personal inclinations.
Honestly, judging from the sample, the gray paper would make a
difference to me, if I was wavering on whether to buy a print or not.
But, I can be really picky about things like that and I don't purchase
art very frequently at all.
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Indigo
Received on Fri Jan 20 2006 - 04:56:40 CST