Theme Theft
March 25, 2008 • 08:55 AM | news
Okay, so its come to my knowledge that there is a PLETHORA of theme theft going on. I’m not just talking about maybe posting the images somewhere of the theme to redirect traffic to where it was originally posted, but when someone actually takes all the zip files that one has posted for public enjoyment and then reposts somewhere else, to in a way claim as their own.
So to curb this, my zip files are going to cost. Not a whole lot, but there were will be a fee attached to each of theme zip files. 5 USD per theme style.. Which means if you want the Fafilicious theme in the Zen style, and don’t have the ability to download Over-The-Air, the fee for the zip file is 5 dollars. If you purchase all the styles for a particular theme, there is a 1 - 2 dollar discount off the regular price.
I look at it like this, the people who put time into creating these themes, basically for free, shouldn’t have their work pilvered and ransacked because someone figures since they don’t have a creative bone in their bodies, they can claim they do for some very minute net notoriety. It may not seem like a big deal to others, but it does if you’ve spent a few hours of your time, that you could have been doing other stuff that would turn a profit, just to see it on some Vietnamese Blackberry community.
I look at it like this, the people who put time into creating these themes, basically for free, shouldn’t have their work pilvered and ransacked because someone figures since they don’t have a creative bone in their bodies, they can claim they do for some very minute net notoriety. It may not seem like a big deal to others, but it does if you’ve spent a few hours of your time, that you could have been doing other stuff that would turn a profit, just to see it on some Vietnamese Blackberry community.
