Ehren Posted December 29, 2007 at 11:33 PM Posted December 29, 2007 at 11:33 PM From now on, if anyone is caught ripping, or mimicking skins from this site, or any other site, they will be banned on the spot - no questions asked. Ripping gets very annoying, especially if the original creator puts a lot of time and effort into the skin, only to find out that someone else has copied it. So yeah - One person was caught this morning ripping a skin from another skin site. Just about to ban them now. Don't let it happen to you. New design will be coming soon.
Jacck1500 Posted December 30, 2007 at 06:36 AM Posted December 30, 2007 at 06:36 AM Too bad its hard as hell to catch some of them, unless theyre stupid enough to use same usernames on multiple forums.
Griffin Posted December 31, 2007 at 12:27 AM Posted December 31, 2007 at 12:27 AM I think i know a ripper that is on here.
ScottyB Posted December 31, 2007 at 12:33 AM Posted December 31, 2007 at 12:33 AM 100% agreed with banning them, and if i had my way i'd ban them off the Internet, They remind me of pigeons, Scum!
Swiftie Posted January 1, 2008 at 02:42 PM Posted January 1, 2008 at 02:42 PM New design will be coming soon. Does this mean that this skin will be released... *Trying his luck* Shame to hear on the rippers though. Keep up the good work none the less.
Ehren Posted January 2, 2008 at 01:44 AM Author Posted January 2, 2008 at 01:44 AM If by released, you mean sold.. then most likely, yes. But that'll only happen if people like the new design..
Ehren Posted January 2, 2008 at 08:02 AM Author Posted January 2, 2008 at 08:02 AM Banned another one.
Bitter Posted January 5, 2008 at 03:39 AM Posted January 5, 2008 at 03:39 AM I know for a fact there are rippers on here, I even reported one to Ghost...nothing was done about it. But I agree 100% that all rippers should be banned on the spot, as well as people using nulled IP .Board software...I think it is the most ANNOYING thing ever. Good job beefing up the security here and the rules, it is a change for the best for sure. Bitter.
photon Posted January 5, 2008 at 07:52 AM Posted January 5, 2008 at 07:52 AM I'm glad to see this get done. While a friend of mine was banned, I think what he did was horrible still. Heh, take it as a compliment sorta People want your stuff because it looks good xD Down side...you lose work, hundreds of hours put into work is stolen, etc.
Ehren Posted January 5, 2008 at 08:12 AM Author Posted January 5, 2008 at 08:12 AM Haha, a compliment indeed It's okay.. I guess they just can't do it without us, haha. The thing that really ticks me off most of all is when they say "I'm a professional ripper". Hahha, I'm not sure what it takes to become a "professional" ripper, because it's copying another persons work. Another thing is when they say: "Don't take credit for this rip, and don't redistribute it". It's funny because they're taking credit for the work that the REAL creator did, and they're redistributing the rip even though it's not allowed at all. Stupid rippers, haha.. little noobs they are.
Swiftie Posted January 7, 2008 at 12:50 AM Posted January 7, 2008 at 12:50 AM If by released, you mean sold.. then most likely, yes.But that'll only happen if people like the new design.. He He.. At what cost I wonder (PM me if you don't want to reveal it on here) & you know people would love the new design.. Wasn't this the reason you had rippers in the 1st place You got an ETA? Or is it just a case of when it's ready. It's ready..
Ehren Posted January 7, 2008 at 03:08 AM Author Posted January 7, 2008 at 03:08 AM He He.. At what cost I wonder (PM me if you don't want to reveal it on here)& you know people would love the new design.. Wasn't this the reason you had rippers in the 1st place You got an ETA? Or is it just a case of when it's ready. It's ready.. It'll be finished when I can be bothered to work on it, haha. The site design is done, but I'm yet to start on the forum skin. I might give this skin away as a free one.. still yet to decide.
Bitter Posted January 7, 2008 at 07:40 PM Posted January 7, 2008 at 07:40 PM You should sell this skin for a small price, say $20+ because it is a nice skin. And it would suck to see all the effort wasted. In my opinion, most, if not, all skins should cost at least a small amount because effort goes into these skins, whether people agree or not, and some of us make a living off of it. People ripping skins makes us look like what we do is worth nothing. I get so annoyed at that. Rippers are dumb. They really are. They aren't good at anything, so they try to rip other people's stuff to make themselves feel better that they have no purpose. Bitter.
photon Posted January 13, 2008 at 01:09 AM Posted January 13, 2008 at 01:09 AM I wish IPS would make the skinning system a bit more advanced.... I mean hiding the copyright is so easy. White background - change copyright text to white. CSS is so open to theft, however that can't be hidden much. The only hard part I would imagine is HTML edits to skins because you can't really just copy and paste like you would in CSS I would imagine.
Ehren Posted January 13, 2008 at 02:04 AM Author Posted January 13, 2008 at 02:04 AM There are better ways than white background and white text, lol.. but yeah, it's not really possible to do too much with html/css to prevent rippers unfortunately..
Jacck1500 Posted January 24, 2008 at 03:59 AM Posted January 24, 2008 at 03:59 AM I know this one site that has a lot of skin rips. They were also using nulled ipb board. I reported them to Ipb, but they have offshore hosting so nothing has happened.
Stars25 Posted January 27, 2008 at 01:52 AM Posted January 27, 2008 at 01:52 AM I know this one site that has a lot of skin rips. They were also using nulled ipb board. I reported them to Ipb, but they have offshore hosting so nothing has happened. Yeah i have been an associate with a few IPB owners, and then i found out they had nulled software so i havent communicated with them since. One associate's site that i never visited had ripped a skin, and guess what.....it was one of mine. lol
ll Hemp ll Posted January 27, 2008 at 11:09 PM Posted January 27, 2008 at 11:09 PM I hate ripper's they are people that have no social live's that feel the need to terrorize other's for self gratification.
himmania Posted February 14, 2008 at 03:26 AM Posted February 14, 2008 at 03:26 AM hmm how do you know when somebody stoling the skin on that moment...? i dont think someone will start stealing my skins but its good to know how to watch them
firebase Posted February 14, 2008 at 03:50 AM Posted February 14, 2008 at 03:50 AM So these rippers can go to all our sites and ripp 'em from the "click here" button?
Bitter Posted February 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM Posted February 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM Usually if you see your skin posted somewhere else to download by someone who isn't you, and it usually contains some errors, then it is ripped. Bitter.
manHa Posted February 18, 2008 at 04:37 PM Posted February 18, 2008 at 04:37 PM So these rippers can go to all our sites and ripp 'em from the "click here" button? yeah
NeMesiS Posted August 20, 2008 at 07:57 AM Posted August 20, 2008 at 07:57 AM So these rippers can go to all our sites and ripp 'em from the "click here" button? You probably shouldn't have mentioned it. I wonder if they can edit our website by doing that also?
Ehren Posted August 20, 2008 at 09:13 AM Author Posted August 20, 2008 at 09:13 AM "Rippers" can't edit your site.. they just do a very very basic copy of your skin by copy/pasting the css and some html.. most of the time the rips are pretty poor. They're only common on large sites or very unique skins.
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