Shoutbox

Is it me or they just stole the background images from msgplus.myboard.com and plugins.msgplus.net, changed their color, and put them into their skin?

Same for the copyright image at the bottom, they even copied the CSS from this skin: look at the extra padding on the left.

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Theme Design by Shady and Martini

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http://www.messenger-skins.net/

Nice guys, eh...

Sorry, but if you do this kind of stuff, don't say you've "worked hard for about a week" to make a good skin for a site.

Shady and Martini didn't just copy the concept or idea, but duplicated the actual image files and css code...




I'm just asking that they don't take credit for something they didn't do, I'm not implying that this is the biggest piece of design ever made or anything.

The descriptions of the forums are really close too...

They did actually "work hard for about a week". Even if they have used the backgrounds from here (i dont know if they did or didnt) its not as if they are identicle, the very basics, like the gradient, but thats about it.

I think maybe your exagerating this a little.

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Originally posted by anonymousjon
They did actually "work hard for about a week". Even if they have used the backgrounds from here (i dont know if they did or didnt) its not as if they are identicle, the very basics, like the gradient, but thats about it.

I think maybe your exagerating this a little.

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Apart from changing the colors and copying this forum's images, they didn't change anything else. They didn't copy the idea or the basic concept, they copied the files and the exact html code.

And they took credit for that. Otherwise I wouldn't mind.

apart from the background images, which other images have been "copied"?

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Originally posted by anonymousjon
apart from the background images, which other images have been "copied"?

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The td background images, the copyright background image, the + and - images (which are from Luna's msstyle), the html code for the copyright area and the css code.

Why is copied in quotes? Did I miss something, wasn't this "copied" and stamped as work of other person without permission?

Apart from the stuff mentioned above and the top left logo (which of course wasn't copied because it's about the site) there's nothing more to make a theme. So, basically, a big part of the theme was copied and branded as made by someone else.

well im only the newsposter, i will speak to martini and shady when i can, and see what they say.

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Originally posted by anonymousjon
well im only the newsposter, i will speak to martini and shady when i can, and see what they say.

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Thanks.

I'd have no problem if they'd asked me (I know shady and talk frequently with him), but using others' work like this without even mentioning your "inspiration" is not very nice.

ok, well I hope things can be sorted out.

we didnt rip anything from your skin guido everything was designed and coded by ourselves but i will put a link for you at the bottom if you like to signify that you did come up with the skin concept