We can only hope!

And I think someone is upset now! Check out this post he just left on his site! Huge ones I say!  http://sergiogarcia9.deviantart.com/

Breaks my heart!

and look at this toxic skin some images look ripped also wow, does anyone have a screen shoot of the one they took down?

Guys....again.

Don't bother with the he said she said.....it's a waste of time.

Ideally post appropriate policy violation reports direct to Devart, or post links here to both your work/s and the rips on Devart...and I shall forward those collectively direct to someone who 'can' deal.

99 times out of 100 arguing with someone who does not understand IP rights [or doesn't care to] does exactly nothing, other than make you hoarse.

The problem can be made to go away....but the devil is in the detail.

I just found it http://virtualcustoms.net/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=4 here is his rip of the venom skin and looks like he still selling it wow.

no wonder his name is Grim. because he is the grim ripper. copies other peoples work

..what Jafo said

Ever notice that when trying to point out to a person that they did something wrong the go back to being a two year old.........oh those terrible Two's.  

Anyone know this guy?

http://art-thief-patrol.deviantart.com/

I have put him on my watch list just to watch, ya know.......I'm not sure if he's just a trouble maker or not

Yeah I saw that guy...no idea who he is...he's well intentioned but going a bit overboard with his posts and it would be great if he could spell. And everywhere he posts now those guys probably think he's from here. I put him on watch as well just to keep an eye on him. Seems he's even set up a site there.

And Jeff from The SkinsFactory has reported these guys as well now to devart.

The work that had images from my Windowblind has been removed from DA.

Excellent!  2 down and how many more to go!

Great, Lady X! 

Also great news about Jeff. These guys are being rolled up, but the primary commercial site is the jackpot... when it gets rolled up, it'll pop up again... so let's stay vigilant.

I think I'd steer clear of that one, I am anyway. There' s other groups at dA doing the same thing but in a less vigilante way.

You know, with regards to "his" Toxic skin... it actually has quite a bit of it that isn't part of Venom at all. Like that taskbar. Those open/close buttons and scrollbars, along with most of the start menu look familiar though.

I, and I doubt John would have much of a problem with that skin if he asked to create a "similar to Venom" skin from the beginning and changed more about it. What gets me is the guy's arrogance...

SERIOUSLY!? I hate to tell him this, but nothing about "Toxic" is original, and taking someone else's design and changing a few things about it doesn't make you a real artist.

Hell, he can't even be a jerk online in an original way. Trolls have been acting like that since the 90s. 

I'll lay you ten to one odds that this guy and his cronies wouldn't know what to do with an app like SkinStudio. They'd actually have to 'work' at building a skin instead of taking parts from here and there and changing them to suit. Where's the originality?

little curious about the claims that grimmy and John have been in communications and that graphics files had been sent to John to review. is there any truth in that and what might the outcome be.

anyhow, sent this to virtual customs themes:

Poison window 7 theme by Mr. Grim appears to be direct copy or design rip of Vstyler's windowblind Venom. Personally, the copywrite issues should be obvious, might this, and other works, be removed to avoid confusion to the artists and legal ramifications?
https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/7168/

Not gonna help GMC2.. its his site,

Yeah , he posted a few PSD's, he obviously made them , unfortunately, he has just copied my design.

After some "discussions" over the last coupla days with the GRiM & fanboys.... you can only conclude that to call them neanderthals, would be doing neanderthals a grave injustice....

it's quite disappointing that you can't even try and communicate with them.... to have an exchange of views and try and explain that what they are doing is wrong.... I'm sure they very well know it's wrong...but like to hide behind a curtain of indignance so they can just keep taking the shortcuts of chopping up other creative skinner's blinds.....and all pat themselves on the back as to how clever they are...... none of them seem to show the slightest indignation that this GRiM dude has entered a competition with someone's elses work....which is just the height of gall to me....beyond even the ripping or the selling....just can't get my head around that one at all...and they all find it quite acceptable...which tells you alot about the other competitors....that's obviously their accepted rules...

the skinners ripping and supporting ripping are a very juvenile, edukayshun challenged lot who can't master the English language, leave alone master an original design.... and I 'relize' now that the best course of action is as Jafo stated previously....but,  I had to find it out for myself.... ...and...wow.... that lot are scraping the bottom of the evolution barrel....

Not even.... evolution missed them entirely.  Ever hear of the missing link?  That lot fell somewhere between neanderthals and homo sapiens, so no, let's not lump them in with any other humanoids or primates.