Today I discovered, while poking around online, that there are apparently some people who think that it's okay to own recast, bootleg, knockoff BJDs. Really? You think that knowingly supporting plagiarism and intellectual property theft is morally defensible? You're cool being known as a liar, a cheater and a cheapskate? But, hey, fine, it's all good because you saved a buck by supporting a legally dubious business enterprise instead of a legitimate artist and/or company.
Plagiarism: it's wrong. Don't do it.
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Don’t forget the people who gleefully and proudly use other people’s pictures for their own blogs or photo streams (one of whom intruded into a discussion of problems with a recent Monster High boxed set to crow about returning the set without the doll and smugly stating that it wasn’t their fault the store didn’t look inside the box.) There is an entire class of incomprehensible people who do indeed feel it is their right to have things without proper payment, but who never use the term “stealing,” because only bad people steal, and they’re just getting the things they want. There’s usually also the “reasoning” that, if it was truly a bad thing to do, then they wouldn’t be able to do it. (“Well, if buying a recast was a bad thing, then why are there companies selling ’em, huh?” kind of logic.)
Grar.
(Related: This is why I won’t buy any TTL bodies, because they’re so very obviously CG2.0 knock offs, along with the myriad CG head sculpt knock offs available now. And that doll you labeled as a Takara Jenny knock off I recently acquired from you? She’s a genuine Takara FLCL anime doll, using the Kisara/Shion sculpt. No knock off!)
Ooooh crap, I didn’t know that about TTL. And I just got Millie a TTL body. 🙁 Bye bye, Millie’s new body.
>>(“Well, if buying a recast was a bad thing, then why are there companies selling ’em, huh?” kind of logic.)
I want to yell at those people that their “logic” is not logic. Just because someone’s doing something does not automatically make it ethically acceptable. If that were the case, Chick-Fil-A-[hole’s] support for anti-queer groups would be morally defensible, but it’s not, so CHEW ON THAT.