Open letter to Xbiz World Magazine: Why are you ripping off my graphics?
Sitting down to read the March 2009 issue of Xbiz World (the printed magazine), I came across an article on page 88 titled, "ASACP AIDS FCACP IN FIGHTING COMMERCIAL CP" by Stephen Yagielowicz.
Much to my surprise, the example kiddie porn site looks an awful lot like the splash page to one of my sites. See the side-by-side here, I don't have enough posts to embed images: furrygirl.com/share/xbiz.jpg
I don't recall ever seeing another adult web site using that font, and I especially have never seen any web site ever using it on a dark blue splash page in white and light blue text. There is no debating that Xbiz's little example kiddie porn site is based directly on my splash page.
So, Xbiz, what the fuck? What made you pull my URL out of a hat to use as base from which to make a kiddie porn site mockup graphic for your article? I mean, I know I'm young-looking and all that, but I'm also probably the only adult website that specifically forbids affiliates from selling me as a "teen". I have never used the words "teen" or "young" to describe my site, despite the fact I started shooting/webmastering when I was 18. I don't do schoolgirl content, and I go out of my way to avoid portraying myself as super-young, when I could have gone the Little April route if I so wanted.
To see something I've created (even just something as simple as my enter/exit/members buttons and layout) being used as an example of kiddie porn really pisses me off. It would piss off any webmaster.
I would have expected better from Xbiz.
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