Thread:Doctor Ibrahim/@comment-28144855-20160820192939/@comment-28358106-20160822141935

Holy crap Hound, I hope you raked that guy through the court system. Then again, I tried that too, and lost. The guy who stole from me was actually a friend I had known for over ten years.

It's just a part of the world, unfortunately. I'll tell you what REALLY gets me, is when I do it to myself. I started illustrating a story I had written and was months into it. The story centered around a band and it took place as a sci fi story. Then, out of curiosity I googled the name of the band in my story...and it had been already used almost exactly as the name for a video game. Nobody could've stolen it from me or anything, I don't ever recall hearing about the game (it was a small indie game) and maybe I had heard the name in passing and used it subconsciously, but it was a bizarre coincidence. It took the wind out of my sails and I haven't touched that giant stack of characters since. It really sucks when you discover somebody beat you to an idea.