Gift for MonsterBunnies

Is it the artist's fault when their work is stolen?
"Watermark your work", "just don't upload it"; how far do artists have to go to protect their work?

This is a gift for !MonsterBunnies.
Maturity, age, or how hard someone worked on something should not be a factor for how much someone "deserves" to be stolen from. Even if we can't protect our work, does that mean we shouldn't try to?

We're all people, aren't we? Artists and art thieves.

Emerald belongs to
Mineralite ponies (closed species, don't make your own without permission!) belongs to
Art is mine.

And you know what, you can trace this if you really want to. Because it doesn't matter if you steal it; you'll never be able to draw it like I did, and you never will. But if you do, whether I find you or not, you'll always know that.