*dies laughing*

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OK ... there are some of you around here who remember the Steal-OK account on Deviantart that a couple of us made as a joke response to people taking artwork and posting it as their own.

None of us had logged in for a long time. I did, just a minute ago, and discovered this message from DeviantArt admin:

From: ^devart
Date: Jul 27, 2007, 4:14:22 PM

Steal-OK,

1 deviation of yours, listed below, has been removed from deviantART due to a violation of our policies:

Title: SephARRoth
URL: [link]
Submitted: 2006-08-08 12:37:22 pm

Your deviation was removed due to violation of one of the following policies:

An administrator has removed your deviation as being a violation of copyright.

Your submissions may not contain material or images which were not created entirely through your own effort; this means that you cannot simply collect photographs, artworks and other images, writings or scans from printed books/magazines and submit them to your account. You are not allowed to submit “reworked”, “edited” or otherwise “modified” material which you obtained from other sources.

This behavior is known as plagiarism, copyright infringement, or by the slang term of "ripping" and is an illegal behavior. Your submissions and all the material within it must have been created entirely by your own hand and through your own effort.

If you continue to violate our copyright policy your account may be suspended for a period of time or banned.

If you feel this removal was in error, or have questions regarding it, then please visit the deviantART Help Desk in order to submit a Copyright Violation Inquiry. Be certain to include the above link and title of your deviation in your inquiry for a prompt response.

Please do not reply to this note as it is an automated process and will not be answered and please do not bring these issues into the Forums or other areas of deviantART.

Thank you,

deviantART staff

Oh, God, I'm dying laughing here! Whichever one of you made that, do you still have a copy? I'd love to post it here. XD

And waht I really want to know is: who the hell was offended enough by Steal-OK that they reported that? XDDD

ETA: As far as I recall, it was an official picture of Sephiroth with an eyepatch drawn on him, so it was indeed technically plagiarism, but still... XD