lots of assassins here

I have to say "Noble Sumaratin", because I've released most of my works under a share-alike non-commercial Creative Commons Licence. People are free to post it wherever they like, as long as they give me credit.

Oh woah! This is a really interesting poll! I wish I had come out with such clever idea! I always wanted to ask people about that.
well, I never really thought about that myself until now I've read your poll! cos as far as I know, no one never has stolen art of mine, hope not....but I think if someday I find someone reposting my art, I would be for sure the Noble paladin, in part because I don't like making scandal or saying offensive words to people but mostly, because I'm agree with and maybe a some people who uploads art from someone else here find it on google, because some other people steal it and upload it out of deviantart so the owners can't see them!
I saw a case about that once! Some time ago I was looking for a lips picture for reference to make a portrait for a friend of mine, and I found a blog of a girl who had many pics of lips, and between those there was one that looked very familiar to me, and it was because that was a photo I had seen here first, and I told the owner of the blog "that pic has copyrights!" and she said she didn't knew that cos she found it on a website about wallpapers and the owner of that website wrote nothing about the copyrights or where the photo came from! So I showed the girl the original photo here and I told the artist on dA about the website, and I wrote the owner of the website it wasn't allowed to post pictures from deviantart out there but if he wish, he wanted to post a link to the original pic, and luckily, everything was solved good.
But that was a lucky case I think, cos I've seen people who just loves to steal someone else's work, who even they can remove watermarks on drawings and paintings, and some of them are proud of that and to be mean! That bothers me a lot cos as an artist I am, I know we work hard on our works, we put on them our dedication and love, and that people who steal pics don't know that! and it's not fair at all the fact many Artist's are worried when they post their pics online (here or in some other place) and can't be being admired and express themselves in peace thanks to that bad people! That is just a crime! I believe everyone have the right to have a space to express themselves through the art, and some of us don't have a medium to do that like the TV or magazines, so we must to have a right to access the internet and express ourselves with our art! Without worry about art thieves!
So, maybe I would be a noble paladin with a bit of crusader, cos I believe we the artists (in this case the deviants) gotta be united to protect us each other and to care about the art here is genuine, and it's not stolen art. So I'd totally would write a journal entry about it if someday I find a stolen art of mine or from someone else in a gallery of someone who is aware that is stolen art (obviously after a negative response) to warn people about who's the art thieve!

DA should have NJDAP (Ninja Assassin Deviant art department) so we pay them to take out users for us no questions asked

I got ripped once, it made me feel quite pleased actually that I could make art that somebody else wanted

Then I wrote a journal entry and successfully removed a fair chunk of his gallery (other ripped stuff)

After running into a couple different types of people that take art (one person being really cool about it, asking if they could use my art as a reference to working on some 3D stuff he was making, thus not really stealing/ripping as he had my permission), I would probably get upset personally, but try to kindly word a comment to them about how it's my work they took. If all I got back was troll hate, I would report it and fume a bit to myself, possibly ranting to my friends a bit.

Fortunately though, to my knowledge, nobody has blatantly ripped my artwork, mainly because it's crap, honestly. lol. Makes me want to go searching the web to see if I see what I've drawn anywhere on it >.=.>


/me goes to google

Silent assasin. Aw yeah.

I'm more of a Noble Paladin.

I like the Retarded Samaritan option (just for the phrase if nothing else)

well it depends on how hard i worked on the piece, xD