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How do you keep someone from stealing your forum skin?

Thread title: How do you keep someone from stealing your forum skin?
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11-19-2005, 04:56 AM
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I'm just worried about that as I currently have a mass tight one I paid for. Is there a way to stop this? I assume not.

11-19-2005, 04:59 AM
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There is not a way to stop this. For example a little while back talkfreelance caught somebody using their skin and they just reported it. So even though it is not a good thing to happen, there are ways around this

11-19-2005, 07:55 AM
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It sucks..Somebody ripped mine the other day...

11-19-2005, 08:01 AM
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Always look at the bright side. Ripping means that they really want their community to be like yours, something like a wannabe. You could calmly contact your host or send the ripper a notice that you will take action if he/she does not take it down by a certain amount of time.

But if the ripper do know what he or she is doing and pose as your website or endanger your members in some sort, you could get more 'agressive' and just report it to a higher authority that is in charge of the website, the webhost etc.

Please do not e-mail the ripper with warnings that you would take legal action ( unless you're really serious..which not a usual sight ) because most rippers knows that such threats is not serious, and they might even do more damage to the forums or whatsoever ( hacking etc. ).

Ok, that was long.

11-19-2005, 11:08 AM
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Well you really can't stop anyone, it's happened to me several times now but in the end the rippers wish they didn't I usually contact them and issue a cease & desist telling them to remove the skin or face legal action. 9/10 they remove the ripped work and the issue is dealt with but sometimes i've had to contact their host and have had their websites and domains taken down.

11-19-2005, 11:24 AM
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How do you find out who their host is if they dont have a link to it?

11-19-2005, 11:26 AM
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Do a whois on their domain address Google "whois" and click on the first link for more information.

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Or http://www.whois.net/ for the lazy people

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