the problem with your technique, Xphusion, is that the rippers usually don't bother with the watermarked images, 75% of a theme is without images, and most of the others are easily replicated. what the "kids" want most is usually the structure of your forum, they can handle the images, as you've done when you created yours...
everything that is "seen" on the net can be replicated, and if it's visual, nobody can really protect you, because lawyers now give the reason that you gave access to your site so the leechers could be inspired by it. the logic of copyright is not broken if they are just inspired (what lawyers say because they are lazy)... the respect is not part of copyright. i know a lot about this, my wife is teaching Arts, and they always have debates about what can be copy-protected and what not... if you inspire yourself from Van Gogh, you do not break it's art's copyright... even slightly inspired is not the original, and if you did not painted in the same technique as Van Gogh, not using the same colors or paint, this is not wrong, UNTIL you try to sell it and say it's a pure Van Gogh... on the other side, you would break the copyright if you leech his painting and apply your name instead of his...
ya know what, code, design, inspiration, everything is based on what you think is good or bad... when you purchase vBulletin, you do not pay for the code inside the files, you pay for the work the guys are putting to create the engine... because the code is PHP, free and copyprotected... so it's all up to you to evaluate the value of the work they put in... leechers give it no value at all, and that's where the stick tongue the most... i know at start that they do not respect me or anyother here, so why bother... i'm sure at 99% that their mothers do not know.
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04-13-2009, 02:04 PM
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