Shoutbox

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Originally posted by ResourcE
I have an IDEA !!!

If we can only make somehow the
<Name>xxxxx</Name>
  <Description>yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy<Description>
    <AboutUrl>http://zzzzzzzzzzzz</AboutUrl>

non-changeable,then,the ripping would be stopped about 90% and the name of the author will be still there so the ripper can't release it

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well if your going to do that why not give us some way to password protect the entire skininfo file, messenger can read it, but to actually read the file in an editor or change the code you would need a password to get into it that way if they wanna change your skin they are restricted to the limitations of the skininfo as they could only then change images and uifiles.

i personally think it would be hard to modify my images as although my original images start out with objects on different layers etc like for example in my summer theme, the background which is the big gradient stuff is a seperate object from the sun and the dolphins etc, now when i use xnview to compress the filesize of my images it forces all elements back into a single layer so cant be edited seperately, this has given me the unintentianal bennifit of making it harder for rippers to change my images, yes if someone took the time to get the gradient to match up with mine then can put custom elements on top of my bases but that involves the rippers actually doing a bit of work so hopefully deters them from ripping my skins, however other images like the few animations i have i can just go in and use a filter to change the colour of the image making for fast developement of new colour packs for my graphics pack option, now those images are obviously easier to be ripped but hey i cant do anything about that.

perhaps another way round the problem is to lock down the actual folders so that while messenger could read any folder in the plus skins directory you could only open folders yourself that you yourself created for your own skin creations, a folder created by a skin downloaded from the database etc would require a password in order to get into it, just a thought.