Sijun Forums :: View topic - Pichinoty Jean, art-thief!!

micke · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 3:54 am

I hope you're lurking around here and read this, cause i want your name to be known in the art community on the Internet.

This guy Put up my art, Craig Mullins, Agent.44, Adigra, Francis, Loki and so many others in his so called Portfolio..

Right now everything is removed, but an archive of the site can be downloaded here:
e-k-o

Thanks to Carlos(M4de.com) for letting me know.

-Mikael

Dekard · member Member # Joined: 01 Nov 2001 Posts: 274

What was the website address? You can view it at www.archive.org as well if it was up for abit.

-HoodZ- · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2002 5:15 am

not another one....we should make a dedicated website and post the names of these thieves and have it linked all over the art messageboards out there...maybe this will discourage these untalented wannabes

...

Danny · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 2:39 am

Hej Micke..

sorry to hear you (and the others) have been victimized again.
Downloaded the Rar but was unable to extract anything from it. It appears the the file is corrupt.

Hope things are going strong with your new job.

James Bradford · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 7:12 am

The thing I don't understand for all these people who steal other's art, are they planning on using this to get a job? Because once the company hires you, they will find out very quickly that you don't have these abilities. Hmm..

wigin · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 7:51 am

Hah.. kinda stupid of him to steal desings from Myst 3 ... hmm what a dork...

spooge demon · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 4:29 pm

time for me to come clean. All the artwork you think I do is done by some guy I met in a chat room named Frank. I can't draw a lick.

He really put some time into that site. Amazing. I wonder what his own work is like?

Danny, the file was OK for me..

balistic · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 5:00 pm

Craig: its okay, as long as you were just practicing your signature.

Dr. Bang · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 5:06 pm

quote:
Originally posted by spooge demon:
time for me to come clean. All the artwork you think I do is done by some guy I met in a chat room named Frank. I can't draw a lick.

He really put some time into that site. Amazing. I wonder what his own work is like?

Danny, the file was OK for me..

I would still love you for your beautiful personality and your deep humor craig.

Dr. Bang · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 5:10 pm

His domain info

domain: E-K-O.NET
owner-address: Jean Pichinoty
owner-address: ......
owner-address: 12345
owner-address: .....
owner-address: France
admin-c: JP380-GANDI
tech-c: AR41-GANDI
bill-c: JP380-GANDI
nserver: ns0.gandi.net 212.73.209.250
nserver: ns4.gandi.net 80.67.173.194
reg_created: 2001-10-31 08:16:53
expires: 2002-10-31 08:16:53
created: 2001-10-31 14:16:54
changed: 2002-02-07 09:58:06

person: Jean Pichinoty
nic-hdl: JP380-GANDI
address: 10, boulevard louis blanc
address: 34000
address: Montpellier
address: France
phone: +33 608302356
e-mail: [email protected]

person: GANDI Auto Register 4.1
nic-hdl: AR41-GANDI
address: GANDI
address: 38 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth
address: F-75003
address: Paris
address: France
phone: N/A
e-mail: [email protected]

2nd strike for france!domain: E-K-O.NET
owner-address: Jean Pichinoty
owner-address: ......
owner-address: 12345
owner-address: .....
owner-address: France
admin-c: JP380-GANDI
tech-c: AR41-GANDI
bill-c: JP380-GANDI
nserver: ns0.gandi.net 212.73.209.250
nserver: ns4.gandi.net 80.67.173.194
reg_created: 2001-10-31 08:16:53
expires: 2002-10-31 08:16:53
created: 2001-10-31 14:16:54
changed: 2002-02-07 09:58:06

person: Jean Pichinoty
nic-hdl: JP380-GANDI
address: 10, boulevard louis blanc
address: 34000
address: Montpellier
address: France
phone: +33 608302356
e-mail: [email protected]

person: GANDI Auto Register 4.1
nic-hdl: AR41-GANDI
address: GANDI
address: 38 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth
address: F-75003
address: Paris
address: France
phone: N/A
e-mail: [email protected]

[ March 06, 2002: Message edited by: Dr. Bang ]

Atomic Urine · member Member # Joined: 20 Feb 2002 Posts: 71

The French! I should've known.

Dr. Bang · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 6:10 pm

Like i predicted, hes already surrender.

burn0ut · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 6:14 pm

drbang-lol :P
sorry to hear that this shit happend again, and im sure it's still happening everywhere .. bastards

Futura · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 12:10 am

What a cock!
I have had a few similar experiences, I even found a print of one of my sketches on an auction site. I have been told by a plagerist that I was copying his art, luckily I always keep line art.
Plagerism of art is about the worst thing you can do, we the artists spend hours and days on some of our work and to see someone claim it as their own is despicable. Cheers to you for fighting back in any way that you can.
Futura

Sedone · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 7:55 am

What a disturbed individual. If you read his about page, he talks about his girlfriend, family, and friends. They're most likely made up. And his website actually looks pretty cool, unless he stole that too, of course. I hope he's just a stupid kid who'll grow out of it, but it sounds like he's old enough to know what the hell he's doing. In which case he's up for some Gladiator style ass-whoopin'.

What a sad pathetic loser.

At least I was able to download some kick ass artwork in one big download. Wish I knew who drew some of 'em.

micke · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 8:55 am

Yeah, his girlfriend is made up..She's called Cecilie, right? Look at the redhead picture pic he stole from me. He renamed it to Cecilie.

SoMK · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 10:19 am

Could a brave soul point me to a webpage I could actually see thru a Mac ?... the rar extension sure has a mac textension but it's at best highly instable... I'd love to see this monument of stupidity too, I need to relax :)

henrik · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 11:14 am

Hmmm...I usually don't have much to say about anything really, but this is making me sick. Artists with lifelong passions for what they do, and then ripped off by a nobody loser assmaster like this. Can't believe it.

I'm glad the Sijun board exists to connect artists, and to spot idiots like him. He put so much work to a nice looking site, but for what? Does he really believe that site is going to get by, unnoticed by the artists he ripped off? Oh my, he's not the brightest I've seen.

gArGOyLe^ · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 11:18 am

hmm.. I personally would be flattered..

but only the first 3 times

spooge demon · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 10:09 pm

SoMK,

a .sit file for mac

not while eating

Francis · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 10:56 pm

Wow, looking at that stuff made me want to laugh and vomit at the same time. All the signatures were erased, and very obviously at that. Grr makes me want to take my site down.

vurx · Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 11:28 pm

some of the images he was able to get were at VERY high res.

is it a good idea to have extremely high rez images on the net?

i dont think so.

-- vurx

SoMK · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2002 1:25 pm

spooge� thanks ! I really would have missed something. *one raised eyebrow*

itchi · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 10:31 am

ugh, i think i'm going to wait and DL it on my work computer. dial up sucks! yeah the nerve of some people. it always amazes me how they never think that with all the poeple surfing around that noone would notice.

i think the funniest one that i saw was a guy came in for an interview when i was working in animation and he had photocopies of some of frank frazetta's work in his portfolio. he even forgot to whiteout the page numbers on some of the pages!

dang, i cant seem to figure out how to open a .rar extension. it's trying to view it through ACDSEE but nothing is showing up....

[ March 10, 2002: Message edited by: itchi ]

itchi · Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2002 8:49 pm

well finally got a copy of WINrar and took a look. yikes half my sketches are in there! i cant believe noone notified me! i guess sometimes people can get away with things with out some of people knowing

wayfinder · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2002 3:36 am

from his bio:

quote:
During these years I met lot of young, passionate and extremely skilled fellows who work hard every day to give much more than they receive.

indeed.

::nox|silicon:: · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2002 4:37 pm

have you looked ast his "CV"?
it's worth a laugh or two:

imagine that:
he claims to have finished University of Avignon in a year (98-99), then Arts-School in another year (99-2000) and after that Tech-Institute... and besides of that he had leading roles at major web-design-agencies and game-developers (i.e. in the field of "bitmap or vector modelling" -lol-)

man, this guy sucks! I always wonder what people like him think how anybody should believe this crap...

::nox|silicon:: · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2002 4:39 pm

btw: even his "very own" eko-logo is stolen from an austrian game-developer...

ambient-whisper · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2002 5:08 pm

well. there is an upside to all of this.
you guys saved me a few hours work loking for inspirational artpieces

i have it all on one rar file

thanks.

ken · Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2002 6:17 am

yeah, it was pretty cool to get a whole heap of funky art in one stolen package. i'm thinking, maybe we could set up some sort of numbered thumbnail list so we identify who did what.

i can't believe he included stuff by joe madureira, how dumb can you be?

-Ken