Stolen art on conventions in Poland

Yesterday I came back from Otakon convention in Warsaw. As usual I had a small stand together with with badges and small prints with our pictures. Sale was pretty ok but I spotted a few really depressing things.
First of all most of stands were just offering stuff with stolen pictures - not only official ones but also from DeviantArt, Pixiv(poor Japanese artist who post their pictures in high resolution), everything printed in low quality on badges, t-shirts, pillow covers etc The sellers were making really big money on it especially when they had low prices(for shitty quality prints), becouse people will buy cheap stuff anyway.

Second thing was a fact that me and Goku were only artists that were still trying to sell their art. It's not like we don't have talented manga-style artists in this country. There are really many of them - even here, on DA. Most of them used to go for conventions with their stands but ones with pictures downloaded from internet "killed" most of convention market - esp made everything hard for people with a small amout of designs who have to pay more for each print in the printing house.
On the other hand prices for convention stands got higher for everyone. In some rare ocassions there were small discounts for artists but usually it was connected with a very poor location.

Third, I still keep finding my own old art here and there all the time. Once I found my fanarts on badges from some stand, when I asked seller to hide it she said that they bought all their stuff in China and if she paid for it, it's hers.

I wish that we had a proper comic villages like on Western conventions that I visit from time to time. With "culture" like that it's impossible. If only people who buy stolen pictures think twice if it's really fair to the original artists that someone who doesn't have any rights makes money on their work.
Maybe then other local artists will be active on our conventions again. I seriously miss them