On graphic communities if you put something under resources then it's meant to be used by other people. That's the whole point of a graphics forum.
The owner puts his image on there knowing and hoping someone will use it. If he didn't want them to use it, he would put his name all over it. The websites owner obviously did not want people taking his images or he wouldn't have created this thread. So you can try again and give me another example of your designers stealing images that were not allowed to be taken.
Where did I say it was under the resources? I think I never said that. It was just in their "show off" threads. And they never stated anyone could use them. And come on, seriously, hardly anyone puts watermark on his work. Except those who know that people would claim their work as theirs. Well, the truth is he didn't like it. But he can't do anything about it, it's same like a rapist wanting the protection from the police. I think you understand what I'm trying to say.
Ah but katz does tell us something, first off 4* requires about 5 months to reach. So that tells me it's not a new site, which means the webmaster should by now have gone past the phase of stealing other peoples work and making his own. If he hasn't then he's just another kid.
Katz doesn't tell you anything. I don't know anything about those stars, as I never used Katz or any other DDL. And I'm proud of it, it's absurd to wait 5 months for another star. You do realize that if a forum is good, and professional, he would get the 5 stars right away, without waiting. But that's hardly going to happen, because every new forum is far more worse than the previous one.
1. I don't make money off my forum, and I know a lot of admins that don't either. I never created a site for the intention to make money, and so did all the good communities.
Again, I don't know you. And I really don't know do you make money off your forum or not. And frankly, I really don't care. As it's none of my business. And I guess I'm wrong, it seems you're one of the good guys. Ones who are creating their forums as communities, not as "link dumpsters". But there's no need to feel offended (if you do) , because this is just a discussion. Most of the things I wrote in the previous reply, weren't aimed for you directly, it was just because of the things you wrote. As Prazsky said, you basically said that uploading/sharing of movies,music, applications, is good. And really, it's not. When you said that, I thought you were some confused kid who uploads to get some money.
2. lol, when I used to upload, it was to rapidshare only, and only to get enough points to renew rapidshare, not to take that into my pocket. Nowadays I don't upload anymore, I actually lose money because I have a seperate box that I allow other people to upload for me. Some do it because they like to, others do it for the points. I wouldn't hire the people that do it for the points, but sadly the scene turned into this money grab place because of people like you.
Just one little question ... Why because of people like "ME"? I'm pretty much against everything, and you could notice that almost everyone here hates me because of my comments on threads related to uploading and warez. I'm strongly against this new "scene".
3. Alright, there are a lot of people hurt but it's not our doing. Upcoming musicians that care about music just want enough money to live off of, but the record company pretty much takes all of their earnings. As for movie producers, most people on the set are paid a fixed salary and only some people make money according to their boxoffice viewings. Either way, those people usually earn more then enough to have a comfortable lifestyle.
But then look at the other side, look at how many people we gave the chance to become GFX Designers. Almost all of them wouldn't exist if photoshop wasn't cracked. By simply downloading word you save some money, and can use it to buy yourself a few more meals and still keep up with school.
You're the part of it if you think it's ok. Depends about which musicians you're trying to tell me. I don't care about that Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and those faggot rappers like Soulja Boy. Their music is crap, so sharing/uploading/re-uploading of their music doesn't affect me at all. But, leeching all albums from some good band, who isn't with major label, is really gay. It wouldn't be on a private torrent tracker if it was meant to be shared with everyone. That's the whole point, if torrent trackers were a little bit more restricted, everything would be fine. And there would be no kiddie leechers, when some kid leeches discography of some not so well known band from a private torrent tracker, and upload it to all file hosts to get some points, another kid will re-upload his links, with some RDP as he like to say that his upload speed is slow (CRY ME A RIVER!) , other guy will download it, and burn it on the cd, and sell it, it will be pretty much leaked around the world. So what's the chance of band earning money from the CD's sale? Only the true fans will buy their CD. But 90% of them will DOWNLOAD it. So REALLY think about it. It's not like you think.
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Honestly if you're so against warez why the hell are you here? You're even the worst type, that try and profit off it and still are against it?
If you think we're all so bad go to the police office and turn yourself in.
I'm not against the "warez", I have another meaning of warez in my head. And it always stayed the same. I like to analyze things a lot, so I was never able to start thinking about it like you, or some uploader. I don't even have a warez site, and I did try to make one, a private one for my country. Unfortunately, people from my country, are lazy greedy fucks who don't want to get a REAL JOB. And they even think that selling of phished RapidShare accounts is LEGAL.
And yeah, I could turn my self in. If it was meant to be, I'd be in jail long time ago, as I did some things I'm ashamed of. And it's nothing like warez, something far more serious, fraud related. Anyways, it wasn't my intention to get you so angry.
However, I won't a hold a grudge on you because of this, this is just a discussion. :P
Cheers...
