Few days ago something disturbing on DA drew my attention. I was searching for some fan art of game character which is probably well known. Fan art may not be realy creative piece of art. If its well done and not coping already existing images it is fun to draw and watch.
This journal entry is not about fan art but I will refer to it from time to time. Ad remo...

  Things that actually made me to write this post were search results. After browsing 6 or more pages of wallpapers and lame manipulated concept arts from developer site, I have finaly found what I was looking for.

-My first question is: Is Deviant Art place to post hundreds of wallpapers and copyrighed concept arts?

  Most of search results were in fan art cathegory. You may imagine my astonishment. I was trying to figure out why....Why do people have to post 30 or more same wallpapers, as if everybody wanted to post this wallpaper by himself.
Comments under some of them made my jaw drop. "Realy nice stuff man" under concept art from developer site. Picture was manipulated in most lame way you can do it.It seams nowadays parents give their children Photoshop instead of sweets and toys. Photoshop + internet gives almost every 10 years old kid oportunity to violate author law...
(majority of them have no idea about copyrights. Its not generalization, nothing against kids too.)

  I am probably not a right person to tell what is and what is not an art. I can also imagine that those people who post manipulated stuff from games think that their creation is realy unique. Let me tell you something... IT'S NOT. If I am forced to browse threw 5 pages of search results and all I see is same wallpaper, croped in every possible variation, I am not touched by this kind of 'art'. They are only trash and dont bring anything new.
If I want, I can get it from developer site so no need to post 'em here.

-Second question is: Do you think that Deviant Art becoming Photobucket, MySpace, Imageshack, Flickr etc.?

  I came across stuff which belongs there. Sometimes I get a feeling that people use DA as image hoster.

  I have also noticed that those wallpapers from my search results were in fan art cathegory. Not only people upload soemthing which they didnt make but also not writing that its someone else property. It ends with brilliant comments : "I realy like what you did", "very nice" and many more. I was even more surprised when I notice someone fav those concept art wallpapers.
  I change wallpaper quite often but is it a reason to upload a screenshot every time I do it?

Is it time to make more strict rules for uploading or everything should stay the way it is? Do you have any ideas what should be changed?

  If you made threw this long journal entry why not sharing your thoughts with me?

Cheerz