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[quote who="WebGizmos" reply="140" id="2690833"]Here's my view on this. Ultimately the end decision on how this will be handled falls at the feet of those creating the skins. How that decisions works out and effects sales won't be known until it's implemented. As far as this piracy thing anyone would have to agree it's an uphill battle. It's sort of like the battle anti virus developers have every day...build a better mouse trap and some clown is already building a better mouse. If

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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="131" id="2690734"] Quoting bubbabyte, reply 128Quoting Neil Banfield, reply 127 Quoting bubbabyte, reply 124 First off, I was being sarcastic about downloading the skin.. perhaps they don't have sarcasm in your world. Also, so i'm being trivial by referencing gold and diamonds, yet you're the man for comparing pirates to pedophiles and organized crime?? Am i right? Oh one more thing.. if people RELY as you put it, on

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="129" id="2690705"] Yes it's a fact of life that the internet is the home/haven of piracy and IP theft and ID fraud. It's also the home of paedophilia rings. Let's accept them as well as...."you get rid of one site...what's the point...another will spring up in its place". Both are pursued. Both 'regenerate'. It is a valid comparison. Nowhere did I equate their level of criminality or social abhorrence...

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[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="127" id="2690686"] Quoting bubbabyte, reply 124 First off, I was being sarcastic about downloading the skin.. perhaps they don't have sarcasm in your world. Also, so i'm being trivial by referencing gold and diamonds, yet you're the man for comparing pirates to pedophiles and organized crime?? Am i right? Oh one more thing.. if people RELY as you put it, on skin sales, why then does stardock take 50% of the profits?

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="123" id="2690668"] and that is why it's YOUR made up world and not everyone elses, or maybe i'll join yours and go download some skins and tell my wife all about the profit i just made, Don't be obtuse. Buy the skin [instead of pirating it] and tell your wife how much money you now DO NOT have. ...and please don't trivialize it with references to 'all the gold and diamonds'....instead, ask people who actually RELY on skin sales to

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="116" id="2690638"] but regardless of what you want to believe in your made up world, all people that download things from the internet, legal or not aren't looking for a profit In my 'made up world' getting something for nothing - when there is supposed to be fee payment...is called making a 'profit'.[/quote] and that is why it's YOUR made up world and not everyone elses, or maybe i'll join yours and go download some skins and tell my wife all

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="115" id="2690627"] I was selling visual styles (msstyles) years ago for XP before windowblinds was really big, Now I know you have a wobbly grasp of reality... Windowblinds was THE GUI skinning choice long before XP was released, when competition was eFx [and one other I can never remember]. We [Stardock's software users] were skinning for 'generations' of Windows OS before the FUD 'war' on Deviantart.com with the people hacking uxthem

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="113" id="2690599"] You can try and try again, but the fight is futile no matter how you look at it. That's all shit. You are going to die [eventually] so why prolong it....go through all the trials and tribulations of living? Living is futile too as it is guaranteed to be only temporary. k10w3 got it right....it's not [just] loss of income...it's loss of RIGHTS...of OWNERSHIP. If it's MY stuff I'm not going to have some arseh

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[quote who="storm347" reply="105" id="2690453"]until it happens to them some people will never understand the need to fight back.[/quote] It's not about NOT wanting to fight back. But if you're boxing against Floyd Mayweather and you get knocked down would you throw in the towel or get back up knowing there is 100% chance of it happening over and over again? Me personally i would throw in the towel and call it a day because there is no way i can win. S

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[quote who="k10w3" reply="98" id="2690410"] YES they are stealing your work, YES you worked hard to earn that money, but that's the way the internet goes, the quicker you realize this and accept it the easier it will be. I think the animosity a skinner feels over having their work pirated isn't just about the money -- it's about control, ownership, justice, entitlement, strength. I'm pretty sure when Vampothika found her works pirated, she felt violated, so it's m

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[quote]As someone whose skins do NOT sell well I can say that any lost sales do hurt.But Bubbabyte makes a good point,most of those people would NEVER buy a skin so I havnt lost much there. I know why my skins dont sell well...they are odd and only appeal to a select group of people.(people with superior taste)[/quote] I understand what you're saying Brainiac, and i hope you didn't take offense to what i was saying. I'm in no way saying people that don't s

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[quote who="G3mpi3" reply="92" id="2690375"]Sorry Bubbabyte, there's a lot of truth to what your saying, and I agree with most of it. My previous statement was rude, unnecessary, and inconsiderate. With that said, I wouldn't say this site is "one of many which will come and go." When I read that, I threw a fit like a little girl and cried and ran into my room and locked the door. In all seriousness though, the mods and community at this site support one another, and in that way I b

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[quote who="manni" reply="88" id="2690318"]As bad as it is but bubbabyte is right. And after a time they can crack every protection one can implement.[/quote] Exactly. Why waste time trying to avoid piracy, when those people were never going to support you anyway. People seem to have this distorted reality that if we somehow block people from downloading it, they are all going to buy it, and that's just not realistic.

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[quote who="starkers" reply="87" id="2690308"] Quoting G3mpi3, reply 84@bubbabyte Sometimes it's better to keep your thoughts inside your head. Yes, while what bubbabyte says may not be what a lot of people want to hear, he does speak the truth. The harder you try to protect something on the internet, the harder pirates and cracksters will fight to undo encryptions, keys, etc. To some pirates it's like a red rag to a bull... and when you've got a

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@G3mpi3 Maybe you should as well if you can't handle the truth.

Reply to new pirate site for master skins in Community WinCustomize Forums

People aren't going to like my response but whatever, i'm only being real. There is NO way to resolve this issue, you just need to suck it up and move on. YES they are stealing your work, YES you worked hard to earn that money, but that's the way the internet goes, the quicker you realize this and accept it the easier it will be. I'm not saying what they are doing is right, but honest people will still purchase your skins, and if your skin is not selling as much as you thoug

Reply to Explorer window will not load in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

yeah sfc is what i meant..lol

Reply to Explorer window will not load in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I think i got it fixed.. thanks for all the help guys. I did an afc /scannow this morning and it found 2 files and corrected them, rebooted and all is working well now. Thanks again.

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yeah, it probably wasn't asked because it's in my details in the first post :P

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yeah it was through impulse. I didn't run any cleaner program but i guess i could, i remember a few admins around here saying that it's a useless step as uninstalling and reinstalling is sufficient, but who knows.

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only stardock products, iconpackager etc.. I have a modded uxtheme.dll file so that i'm able to use custom msstyles, however that would have no bearing on this issue as i've had the same modded file forever and WB used to work fine. So i'm really at a loss here, I don't know how to make WB usable again.

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Nah it's not a hard drive issue, Aero as well as other msstyles work perfectly fine in win7, i've tried several in fact after this happened with WB today. It's most definitely a WB issue, or something causing WB to act like this, but 100% not a hard drive issue.

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i'm not really sure what you mean by the default gui. I open WB7.. choose the skin and click apply. The skin DOES apply correctly, everything looks as it should, but when i open an explorer window (computer, docs etc..) i get a skinned window, but blank with the timer and HD light never ending as if it's doing something. I would post a screenshot but at the moment i have it uninstalled, until i figure out what to do with it. I didn't think a screenshot was necessary be

Explorer window will not load in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

SO i've had WB7 installed for a while, got all the latest updates thru impulse but haven't used WB in quite some time. So i loaded up impulse today, didn't show any updates so i thought i'd give it a try again. Loaded up a random win7 skin, then tried to open an explorer window. It opened up completely blank with the timer going, and the hard drive light would continuously be working. So i waited figuring it was just gonna take a few seconds cause i haven't loaded it i

Problem updating windowblinds in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Ok so this has been ongoing since i installed impulse months ago. Whenever i see a new update for windowblinds i click update, it downloads, extracts etc.. then it will say installing and it will stay there indefinitely until i'm forced to close the application. In turn this will cause the verification of my install to fail, although the application will work if i verify the install it says it's not installed correctly. Believe me when i say that i have left impulse go for h