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[ashinae]

Have had to edit this post...

elke_tanzer just fucking rocks. Thank you.

And look at this! Two more! By GUESS WHO. Yeah.

For "When You Love a Woman" (the first link), the footage of Aragorn/Arwen at 1:28? Yep, from ME. This vid was posted here on 10/26/03. HELLOOOOO anybody? POINT AND FUCKING LAUGH. I mean, this is ridiculous. And, um, at this point? I think it's just obvious which bits of Aragorn & Arwen footage in "Come What May" (the second link) is not hers. Oh, and that lower quality footage? Probably from very old vids of mine, from when I just had an illegal bootleg before the FotR EE was released. Possibly Primal Eyes, or Beautiful World, or... something.

Has anybody else used that quick shot of Aragorn and Arwen from the Two Towers trailer that was on the extended edition of Fellowship? That one of her smiling in his arms? That never made it into the movie? I don't think I've seen anybody use it but me.

Oh, and I got this e-mail from Desiree yesterday:
Hi Ashinae,
I asked you to do this before, but now I have to ask you again because I got a lot of spam on my site and people are getting annoyed by those spamers. Please remove this entry:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ashinae/90682.html#cutid5

There are no clips any more which include your material!!!! The clips on the site are not stolen and I don't want someone to say that there! Thanks,
Désirée

I mean. She's been using my footage AFTER she got caught. And she didn't get caught for some vids, so hasn't done anything about them! Has she been paying ANY attention?

Together with me now, everybody point and laugh. On the count of three. One, two, three... *points and laughs*

Yeah, honey. No. Stop using my footage ALTOGETHER and maybe we can talk. I've pointed out how to tell which LotR clips are mine. The colour of those black mattes. If they're a kind of light charcoal grey? They're mine. Stop using them. I mean it. And the Harry Potter clips? Try watching Devil Song and Book of Days.

I owe several people replies to comments. I will get to those. I promise.

Comments

[caras-galadhon.livejournal.com]

I can only think of a couple reasons why she'd be so desperate to have you delete/lock down that entry, and the one that keeps floating to the top is so that she's free to do it again.

Regardless of what happens, I'd suggest you keep that entry (and those attached to it) up as markers -- I wouldn't put it past this little girl to do it again. And again. And again.

And I still can't understand why she doesn't get it. My sympathies. I'm not a vidder, but if there's anything I can do, let me know.

[ashinae.livejournal.com]

I am not going to delete these entries. No way, no how. Even if it embarrasses her... well, that's just her problem, isn't it? It shouldn't be my responsibility to clean up after her, so I'm not taking that responsibility. As they say -- she made her bed, she gets to lie in it. I didn't have to be a bitch about this, but she's given me no other choice. And I want these up, and they're going to be linked on my website, and they're going to be an example for anybody else who wants to steal from me. I was willing to be a nice lady about this, but I've been given no other choice. I pour my heart into these vids.

And you know... if she needed the source, or she genuinely wanted to use some of my edits, all she needed to do was ask. I'm not a monster; I merely turn into one when provoked.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'm not a vidder, but if there's anything I can do, let me know.

There is. You can write to webmaster@fanflix.com and tell him that his site supports plagiarism. Tell him you will be spreading this news far and wide until he takes down all the vids by Desiree and JAC Creations. Tell him that supporting thievery within a community is a *terrible* thing to do. Tell him that very soon, unless he acts accordingly, his name and the name of his website will be worthless and despised. Tell him you don't vid, and nothing has been stolen from you, and you *still* care. Tell him you're not alone.

Then go to Desiree's site. Post to her little insta-post thing in the left-hand column. Messages are limited to 85 letters, so be brief - and post often. Keep posting until she does what is right.

There's plenty you can do.

[caras-galadhon.livejournal.com]

Bugger. I don't know why I didn't see this reply when it dropped into my inbox, but good advice. Thank you. I'll keep that in mind (since both options are more or less null and void right now).