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some rips again

http://www.transware.co.jp/portal/customize/skin/volter.html

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You need to e-mail one of the admins and have them take care of this. You can't say it is a rip unless you know for sure that no permission was granted.

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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No...they are 'rips' and Volter knows full well they are....We had them removed from the Opera sites, much to our Russian's disgust, so he's obviously found another unwitting site to host his thievery....>

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oh comrad dingdorf is on the ride again

sad >

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Good luck this time round Jafo!
The 'host' might not be too helpful.
A larger concern should be the pirate copies of WB4.1 that are already out and about! >

Jeez ... three working links (I checked) on the same board within 24 hours is a bit hard to swallow .... >

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This guy really needs a wet trout to the face. >

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Tech Cat, if it dont have written permission in the zip file I concidder it as a rip... but that could just be me, and btw, dont think you will get much responce from opera, they need to use a damn aprovall system >

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Geez, this guy is back at it. It took forever on Opera to get that taken care of. He's determind isn't he?

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I also realized that I need a really good webpage translator program.

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#5 by JourneyMan grayhaze - 7/19/2003 5:20:30 AM This guy really needs a wet trout to the face.

....I think that about sums it up

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, I didn't realize that grayhaze said that. LMAO

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http://www.pcgraphicsreport.com/sample.pdf

a really well presented artical on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at PCGraphicsReport.com.

Graphic spiders seeking out stolen art work displayed on the web, and the fine is $150,000.00 for each offense!

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Tech Cat, if it dont have written permission in the zip file I concidder it as a rip... but that could just be me

Last time I posted a thread about possible rips, I was told to only contact the admins privately about rips since sometimes the case may be that permission was given but was not incuded in the description on the site.

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That's generally for rips on this site Tech Cat. If it's a rip which could affect more than one skinner, and it's on another site outside of the skinning community 'loop', then it's sometimes a good idea to bring wider attention to it.

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yea if its against another site we can get an angry mob going, and to tell u the truth who doesnt like an angry mob

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In this case the accused is guilty of ripping. What if the situation was different? Is it fair to publicly label someone a ripper before the authors of the original works being used have been contacted to ask if the accused did or did not seek their permission? When you post a rip thread you are making someone guilty before they are proven guilty.

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In this case Tech Cat, we already know the guy ripped the icons. He's already posted them on another site and there was a long battle, fronted by Jafo, to get them removed. We've had comments from the original authors, so we know permission was never given to take the icons.

In general, you're right though. Unless there's proof, which is pretty easy to come by when you're talking about ripping, then this sort of thing should be done in private.

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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Tech Cat...this is merely battle number three in the same war against our Ruskie Ripper.

There is a long history of email communication relating to this person.....absolutely no question of 'rip or not rip'....he now knows exactly what he is doing and that it is wrong and stated publicly that he intends to continue doing so.

The IMPORTANT point here, however is that Opera.com and a related 'Fan' site have both responsibly removed his works when requested.....they were unaware of the problem until contacted....and their subsequent actions are beyond reproach.

Language barriers have always been an issue in this case...but we can but just keep trying.

Come to think of it...this is number 4 battle......1 was a dud as he hid under the 'no comprende' camoflage, 2 and 3 were won by sidestepping him with a pincer movement.....and 4 will probably just need us to 'dust off and nuke him from space.....only way to be sure'...

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ever thought of running for political office in the USA Mr Pres.... ah I mean Jafo?

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There is one main suite that seems to stand out from the rest. It's the toon one. That's a paid for suite copyrighted by PixStudio. He thinks it's ok to take the work that people did and mess with it without permission. Then when you keep going through his work, you'll find alot more pay suites and other peeps work that is posted on WC. Opera was a pain to get him to take off. Now it's going to be more interesting to get this one taken care of. I like Jafo's idea, nuke his @$$.

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Only native born Americans are allowed to run for US president.

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And I think you have to be 34y/o on top of that. I used to have to know the list of qualifications. I don't think I qualify. One is the age.

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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And be inventive with cigars...

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That was only Clinton's perversion.

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And I think you have to be 34y/o

You also have to have good reflexes when someone screams...INCOMING...

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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Back to topic....I again must stress that Opera.com in particular were very responsible and removed the offending work/s immediately, and thus are a respectable company worthy of our support and custom....we should be providing them with legitimate skins for their browser, and show them the quality of skins they have deserved...

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