Skinners.....pop on over to....

http://www.best-skins.net/themes_windowblinds.html 

There you will find all manner of Windowblinds skins [just for starters - other skinnables are there, too].

It's not a 100% guarantee that ALL are there without consent...but highly likely at least MOST are.

The authors whose works are ripped [distributed without author's consent] include....[in no particular order, just going through the list] ->

Adni18

treetog

Mike Bryant

Tom and Dee

Martinsh

Daniel

Apocalypse_67

Cliff

'Unknown' <--- [yeah, good one]

Danillook  [sp]

Mike Bryant [again]

Velvet_skin

JJ.Ying

Ian Black

Shawn Taylor

Martnish

Javier

The Skins Factory

Michael Branot [typo]

JJ.Ying [again]

.....and that's the first 4 pages....[there are 12]

To 'convince' Customize.Ru to remove any/all that have no consent to be there....or to convince the site's ISP to 'have something done about them and/or the site itself a wee bit of action/effort is needed.

Any author/skinner who has an issue with any of his/her works being on that site unlawfully needs to post here a link to each work that needs removal....

And...

To email the site ISP with a request and include the link needing to be removed.

The Email addy is.... [email protected]  [It's an US ISP]

If you post the links-of-issue here I'll also be emailing requests.

Each link will require an individual email.  I expect the resulting 'flood' will prompt some form of action....

Koop [Larry Kuperman] is Stardock's man-on-the-job in matters such as Warez/Property issues pertaining to Stardock.com, however this problem with the skins impacts directly on the skin authors themselves and hence is best handled by their direct IP owner. [Copyright holder].

Now, as with any issue pertaining to property rights management, by far the BEST course of action is to specifically be POLITE and cool-headed with any communications/requests.

So,

We ask only two things of you all here.....

1. Please don't flood this thread with comments of 'those bastards', etc., just leave it clear for the matter at hand, namely the reclaimation of OUR ownership/control of OUR property.....by the listing of names and links of people affected.

and

2.  Keep all communications civil.  {I have dealt professionally with various 'Authorities' for over 30 years.... Councils, Planners, Administrative Appeals Tribunals, all sorts of 'fun' Archie things.....and know for a fact that IRATE gets you nowhere....real fast.  [my fave letter closure is "I await your favourable reply"]....

This is all something the 'older' skinners will have already experienced from time to time.

Of course, if ANY of these skins are actually there WITH author's consent.....PLEASE, make note of that here too....