Here goes. Will make liberal use of cut tags, as I have to, because this will be very, very long. Worth it, though, because this needs to be said. *sigh* I so had better things I could do today. Ah well. Wouldn't have taken me so long if I hadn't been trying to chat and also getting repeated phone calls from work.
Yesterday, I went out looking for HP vids, as, I have said before, I've found few that are very good. I went over to
fanflix.com because they post HP & LotR vids. I saw some of the newest ones, by a vidder named Moviest@r, and downloaded two, called "Memento Mori" & "Tempora Mutantor". I noticed something about "Memento Mori" -- it uses the beginning shot of my HP vid,
Book of Days. Hmm, I said. Did research, watched a bunch of her HP/LotR vids, realised, Fuck. She's stolen a lot of my stuff. Checked out the fanflix.com forum, found her LJ (
nigellus) and
web site. And her e-mail address.
Naturally, I was livid, but my dearest
cruisedirector showed up, and became my voice of reason, and thus, I sent a very, very reasonable e-mail:
( As I have seen over and over, nobody else would be this calm about fannish theft )
( And I sent a note to Mr AJ Johnson about his vid )
( AJ wrote me back first, here's the important part, the rest was about vidding in general )
( And then Desiree wrote back... oy vey )Oh boy. She has to go and LIE to me. LIE LIE LIE. *throws juvenile temper-tantrum* So, after I calmed down, I picked five of
vids and did shot-by-shot comparisons to mine. Here they are, in order they appear on her site.
For all of her vids, please pay careful attention to the fact that her sources change constantly, notice the brightness of the black matte around my clips, notice how her clips about 95% of the time do not match the music/lyrics. For my LotR vids, notice the extreme brightness of my clips! Notice the dates stamped on her vids in the info, and the dates mine were created marked right on my site, and again in the vid info.
Addendum: 10/20/03. I have taken virtually all of my vids offline. All the Harry Potter vids are still up, and now watermarked, (and two NEW watermarked LotR vids), and Primal Eyes is still available. Everything else, well, it had to be done.
( Tempora Mutantor, Book of Days, & Devil Song )---
( Ameno & Legacy )---
( Bring Me To Life, Colourblind & Drive )---
( Fame & Primal Eyes )---
( Memento Mori, Book of Days, Devil Song & Tempus Vernum )Addendum 10/20/03 -- Her "Times Like These" vid also uses footage from "Book of Days", and my Rings vids. Some stuff with Aragorn, others with hobbits -- the hobbits clips probably either from Hold On, or Oh Yeah.
So there we have it. Make of it what
you will. I will be passing a link to this entry on to
vidding, the fanflix forums, the host of Desiree's website, the vidder yahoo group... a few places. So that anybody else she stole from can be aware.
Desiree, hon, if you're reading this. All you needed to do was tell me the truth, and I wouldn't have done this. I take no responsibility for what anyone else may say to you. For lying, you deserve whatever you get. I know you're young, and this is undoubtedly quite unfair, but you need to understand the "unspoken" rules of fans and fandom.
THE frelling END.