Oh...I need to add...

It is almost a given that there will be a respondent here who states 'he does not give a toss about his property/skins and anyone can have it'....and that's fine.... FOR HIM.

The issue with an individual's property rights is that he MUST vigorously defend those rights at any and every opportunity....because....if at one time he says 'I don't care'...or shows no interest in their protection the horse has bolted for any future attempt at protection.  A subsequent 'abuser' can point to the prior indifference as what we call in the architecture game as 'first intrusion' [when a block of flats is hard to reject when a precedent was already set by - the first intrusion [block built]].

People need to keep a firm grip on their stable door.

If YOU do not care about your property rights then rest assured....no-one else will, either.

OK...gotta ask, Jafo {hey, you posted this tidbit} Which type of 'skins' were you referring to when you wrote you have a few of your skins in a Japanese softcore mag?

I mean there are a couple of ways to interpret that...and for goodness sake, hide 'em from Terry! 

Jafo...PM. 

Actually they were CD Stomper skins....an old skinnable that is likely dead and buried by now....tho I do have a copy of it somewhere still....along with kJofol and Sonique...

I had the same thing happen with my work and a company called BrotherSoft.com Jim.  Took me forever to get my stuff off there too.  I imagine with the email you sent Softpedia in response that they will just remove your work, companies like these don't care about anything intellectual rights, all they care about is creating site content to draw people in.  Heck, my work is even on TUCOWS and they did not ask either. 

well ...... they didnt sent me any notification ...... but they ripped all of my cursors uploaded at WC

they even made a page using my nick .... ... here is the link

http://www.softpedia.com/developer/sAARGe-61512.html

guys ... i just checked ..... ITS DIRECT LINK ....... they link u to WC when u try to get the skins .....

a new ripping idea ..... just to get more traffic on their site .....

No, mine download from their site. If you find yourself on the Developers page, then it links to your site.

Just for the sake of checking, I was able to directly download a Premium Suite....at no cost!   deleted it too, BTW.

 try this, saarge:  http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Jet-2-Download-142267.html

yeah ... just figured it out ......

and how u deleted the skins ?

Haven't. I will have to email them. I will ask that they remove my skins.

more wincustomize users on there :

http://www.softpedia.com/developer/The-A-V-MAN-60741.html

http://www.softpedia.com/developer/Libardo-60333.html

http://www.softpedia.com/developer/Quentin94-59894.html

http://www.softpedia.com/developer/BONEHEADdb-59938.html

http://www.softpedia.com/developer/vStyler-59928.html

looks like they've been busy on wincustomize this month

might want to make a thread telling everyone to check the site.

I changed the name of this thread, just as an alert. The mods will probably nuke this because it links to ripped skins, for the world to see. Jafo knows....matter of time till he gets on them.

CP, I quit drinking a while back...lol!!  Pizza?

Of all the nerve !!

They could at least link to Master skins !

I understand and whole heartedly agree. I was just a bit flattered at first. I wrote them asking for removal.

WHere do you start? My Iconpackages are all over the freakin place. Someone turned one into icons for cellphones. A dozen or so Chinese sites have them posted. Russina sites. File sharing sites.

Funny.....

I thought it was funny, and was only a joke after all.

Anyway...what Po said... plus... really works both ways, their linking directly to the skins here at WC, now while that may not be the most ethical thing to do, would seem to give WC and whoevers skins are there just more exposure.

I gave up on people pirating my work a long time ago, nothing I can practically do about it, so why not at least have a laugh.

Good people that appreciate good work that was worked hard on to produce will buy my work (if they can afford to) even if they can get it for free, lazy good for nothing theives won't.. I'm not going on a one man crusade to change human nature.

I'm sure if WC has a problem with it that they want to put resources towards, then I'm all for that too... Either way I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

oh great, they have my cursors too, including chococat.........i cant believe they would kidnap my chococat......... i dont like it, but i cant see myself being able to do anything about it, but id like it removed somehow.  i never recieved any email from them either.........

jim can you please pm me their email address. i will ask to have all my cursors removed.

I hear that is a common affliction among skinners.