Ehren Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacck1500 Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Too bad its hard as hell to catch some of them, unless theyre stupid enough to use same usernames on multiple forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I think i know a ripper that is on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottyB Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 100% agreed with banning them, and if i had my way i'd ban them off the Internet, They remind me of pigeons, Scum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiftie Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 If by released, you mean sold.. then most likely, yes. But that'll only happen if people like the new design.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 Banned another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 And another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitter Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photon Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiftie Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitter Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photon Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted January 13, 2008 Author Share Posted January 13, 2008 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacck1500 Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stars25 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ll Hemp ll Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I hate ripper's they are people that have no social live's that feel the need to terrorize other's for self gratification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
himmania Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firebase Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 So these rippers can go to all our sites and ripp 'em from the "click here" button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitter Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manHa Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 So these rippers can go to all our sites and ripp 'em from the "click here" button? yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeMesiS Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehren Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 "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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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