Well, at least we know our persistence is paying off. At first he went from "screw you buddy, my rip is better than your original" to basically bowing down to John and offering to split the proceeds of his thievery.

That's right, Jafo, kick his backside up to his shoulder blades.

As for this scum sucking ripper, I hope he gets his just desserts and everyone gets all the ripped works taken down.

Jeff has made his presence known on Grim Ripper's dA, shouldn't be long now before he either caves or gets lawyers hot up his butt.

so....according to this reasoning...... I can hand write out War & Peace..... and after weeks of hard work copying the words exactly..... I can claim it as my own..... as my creation.....and sell it.....   wow!!...talk about a hide...

I suppose the idea of Intellectual Property is lost on someone who shows no signs of intellect 

That is brilliant, and sadly true. And good analogy, this guy is mentally challenged, kinda sad.

Hah! He disabled comment completely now! Spineless chickenshit!

Hmmmmm? The bible is the all time best seller! And everyone loves a good bible! Naaah...to much work!

When I followed the link there was no comment box at all... not that I would have given him a piece of my mind. 

Don't have a lot to spare , but I sure would've let the ripping scum sucker know my views on what he's done.

=MrGRiM01 1 hour ago All work in Poison was created 100% by me, the theme is based on the VENOM style but not a single image or resource was used from it, ignore all these scum bags they don't know what they are talking about and any of you that know me would realize that I never use other peoples resources and I respect all artists on DA and despise those who would steel work from someone else.

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The greatest Windows 7 Themes, desktop gadgets, wallpapers and Icon packs etc from our talented Artists and WSB Tutorials.

http://win7themedesigners.deviantart.com/

Thats at above link..

Not seen the light yet.

He keeps flagging everyone's comments as spam so I left this for him again and I'll keep visiting until it's taken down.

"Gee...getting a lot of spam are we? Nah...Just comments on your thievery but I guess it helps you to sell stolen skins by hiding everyone's comments explaining how you steal other peoples work and call them your own. Honesty is the best policy..stealing is not. Dude...we are relentless and will hunt you out where ever you are on the internet and let people know you are a thief. Enjoy the ride!"

He left a feedback remark on my DeviantArt site....

"Why would I give in to these bully tactics from vStyler and his crew, it's all a load a bullshit, there is nothing stolen in this theme and he knows it and as it seems he will not admit that I was the creator of this theme I will post the PSD's so you all can see."

He had a link there but it was set to private.

so of the 20 submissions listed on his page, how many are actually his???

obtw: I left some comments also

I'm able to get to this thief's commercial site through dA.

The Admin at dA needs to ban his butt. John, you're not the only one whose work got ripped. This guy needs some serious 'love' from Paul.

Apart from that, he actually has the nerve to write this on his commercial site: (I have removed the active links)

"My entry for Clash of the Titans VC 2010 Showdown called Poison, you can find the Clash Of the Titans Thread here

This theme was based on the best WB theme I have ever seen called VENOM by vStyler, all images were reproduced with every detail and of course some of my own style was put into them as well, I made this theme because of the respect and admiration to vStyler.

Please don't forget to have a look at vStylers gallery and his brilliant VENOM WB theme

This was a great contest and all entrants made a great effort and produced some amazing themes for you all to enjoy, I would like to thank everyone who voted for me, your support and encouragement means allot and it's why I keep trying to bring you these quality themes.

Poison can be installed or uninstalled using 7tsp

For a Tutorial on how to use 7tsp have a look here

Theme Includes:

Poison Theme
Poison Icons
System Clock
Shell32 Control panel images
MAX Glass Cursors
New Sound Schemes, Tinker, Glass & Poison
ieframe (IE8) Skin/Mod
System Properties Logo
Getting Started top Pane
Games Menu Preview Pane
New WEI index images with square borders
wmploc (Windows Media Player) Skin/Mod
New Fonts Eurostile, Micrograma, Pirulen & Unispace
Desktop Gadgets by Pauliewog
And much more!!

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This thief has the gall to tell people how hard he worked?!   Yeah. While v was on vacation. He thinks he created the graphics?

Sic 'em, Jafo!!!

Edit: The plain and simple fact remains: He did this without vStyler's permission. That was most likely due to cupidity and arrogance. 

This is why I don't visit DA anymore. It's a wretched cess pit of thievery and scum.

GRiM's Fairytale....

comments are disappearing fast....but he must be getting the hint...

thanks for that link Rick..

I have been making the rounds on his various groups.

Wish I could help you out buddy, but I cannot post at deviantArt anymore, and this is exactly the reason I left that stinking trash site.  I reported a RIP last year and they completely ignored me, so I pulled all my work off their site and asked them to delete my account.  Funny, they would not pull the RIP, but they deleted my account without hesitation.  I hate people who RIP other peoples work, period!

MrGRIM has left several messages on my DA page......LMFAO! http://2of3.deviantart.com/

Surprise! The cowardly thief has disabled comments.

Commented.

Couldn't find how to report it to DA though...

That is because DA is a trash site, even worse than ThemeXP was.

It kinda looks like he has been kicked out of all the groups he was a member of at DA.....not sure though

on the right hand side column...a little way down....under  Details.....there is a Report Deviation written in blue.... with an exclamation mark in a triangle...