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> did you really have to? All is fair in war, love, and the name of science (with exceptions). After spending a lot of time online as well, I've found just as

• nrr 6y ago
  Stolen content in the furry subculture is actually easily enough dealt with. Given a little bit of work, you can sniff out who drew the original work and piece things together. (This goes notwithstanding that artists actually enjoy knowing when their work is misused so that they can take the appropriate steps to report it, so there's an incentive at play to track this kind of thing down.) Also, because the corpus of source material is comparatively pretty small, you can use image hashing and a distance metric to match something you see to its source. It takes more effort to draw something than it does to snap a photo, and the entirety of E621 can fit on a single SSD. This is quite unlike headshot photographs of people. Authenticating the photographer is almost impossible, and because of the low-effort nature of photos, it's infeasible to have a control data set to match with observed data.