How Revenge is Served

Kinda like spite, but in a can.

"Let's say you're working on a project, and it's the worst experience of your life. The only silver lining is your name not being attached to the thing. Wouldn't you want to stick it to your bosses and be sneakily subversive? 

Of course you would. And as it turns out, you're not the first person with that impulse. It only takes the slightest offense for creative types to turn paranoid, vindictive, and spiteful — and history is full of examples."

An Incomplete Guide to Geniuses Who Perfected the Art of Spite - Gizmodo

Litigate. And Repeat.

Facebook friends posted earlier in the week about having your art ripped off by design companies. Indignation all around. Seems that wholesaler Cody Foster can’t come up with original designs for its… design business, so instead, they cruise the internet and hijack work from people like designer Lisa Congdon.

A despicable act, especially since the chances of being found out are pretty damn high. It seems though, that it’s a fairly wide-reaching problem. In a disturbing LA Times piece, the mechanisms to achieve such copying are minimal: