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Stuart Immonnen on the most blatant thievery of internet artistry imaginable. Read it, pass it on.

posted by Gary Tyrrell on 04.21.08 @ 1:20 pm | 6 Comments

Does anyone else live in fear of the day when monitor technology advances to the point where we’ll all have to be publishing our webcomics online at print resolution?

By Sam Logan on 04.21.08 3:32 pm

That stinks. >:(
Maybe not much comfort, but all the images on the robbed site seem to be standard website-quality images, about 450px wide and up to 200K. If the thieves got all the art straight from the site, I suspect the book won’t be anywhere near the print quality most buyers would accept at $100. The creeps might make a loss on this.

By Tim Tylor on 04.21.08 3:52 pm

I’ve had the same thought, Sam. We’re probably not as many years out from that day as we’d like to be.

By Dave Kellett on 04.21.08 4:55 pm

Have you guys seen the tech they utilize on CNN’s Situation Room or on Apple iPhone/iPod touch, where the screen is scalable with the simple stroke of your finger? THAT is what we’re headed towards, and yes, that will mean printable resolutions right out of the box.

By Jason Sigler on 04.21.08 5:05 pm

It would depend on connection speed as well as monitor tech. Until download times become too short to matter, lots of readers will probably prefer a quick medium-resolution image to a slower crystal-sharp one. And download times could matter for a while yet, going by the current fretting over net congestion.

By Tim Tylor on 04.21.08 5:38 pm

Until download times become too short to matter, lots of readers will probably prefer a quick medium-resolution image to a slower crystal-sharp one

…which means that anyone who’s now able to create and store in a vector format instead of a raster one will be better positioned when the equation changes so that the delta is between a slow crystal-sharp image or a blazing fast one…

By bgporter on 04.22.08 2:32 pm

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