Damn POD people. . .

I have noticed an odd visitor in my etsy stats recently. . .well first it's odd when etsy gives you an actual traffic source.  I mean I only have 4 for all of last year.  So, when I noticed it a couple weeks ago it stood out and when the same one appeared in my stats multiple days in a row it became suspicious. 😒  I looked up the name and a google search basically says they are thieves and scammers. 😶

It's called dmmspy and basically they steal people's art and images to make t-shirts. It appears they are scraping images all over the web and offering them to others for POD shops. For those unfamiliar with POD people no I'm not talking about aliens I'm talking about people who use "Print On Demand" services to reproduce art that may or may not be theirs to use, AKA dirty rotten IP thieves and for those who don't know IP stands for Intellectual Property. 

The rainbowmaille.blogspot.com is from this Blog

The bit.ly is from the shortened links in my other social media posts

Now I would not care normally who looks at my etsy listings, all traffic is good, normally. 😕  But known images thieves looking at the same painting 5 days in a row is creepy and annoying and makes me think they plan to steal my art.  I wish there was a way I could block them from my listings.  I wish etsy had better security and did not allow right click image theft. 😠

I swear if my art ends up on a t-shirt I see for sale I will sue their pants off.