OnlineGuardian Question.

How long does it take? I reported the site that stole some graphics I made brgd123 on his forum. They say they will take it down but days passed. I am waiting for OnlineGuardian to inspect the report.

if the staff is online, they will take care of that right away otherwise I think u'll have to wait and they will contact you within 24 hours.

You mean the staff here or the one on the forum that stole it?

if its penguin related they may even ignore it as the graphics are copyrighted by disney.

paint wrote:You mean the staff here or the one on the forum that stole it?

I mean staff here, so which staff has you send your complaint to?

I sent it to online guardian by report an abuse and told the admin of the site which stole the graphics- they said they would take it down but they didn't. It's not penguin related. Its only the navigation bar (FULL) Icons (The forum ones) and who is online picture- After I found out somebody was stealing it, I didn't upload anything else.

paint wrote:I sent it to online guardian by report an abuse and told the admin of the site which stole the graphics- they said they would take it down but they didn't. It's not penguin related.

oh ic. That's really hard to say. It depend on how that often that person visit his/her site. Sometime they just can ignore your report too. So, there is nothing we can do I guess.

Why not look this at more positive and allow them to use your stuffs then.

Are the stolen images opyrighted? If so, then I'm afraid that nothing can be done unless you just nicely ask the owner of that site to get rid of them. I know how it feels for someone to steal something you have (or made).

Well, they claim that they had their own GFX Designer and he/she claimed to have created the images I did. I have to ask who that was.

paint wrote:Well, they claim that they had their own GFX Designer and he/she claimed to have created the images I did. I have to ask who that was.

oh, so that's another story then. They shouldn't have do that. Do you have the link of their site, let me try to contact them and see how thing going.

Finally, there are two sites with this problem- One of them just finally took it down. This is the one, currently-

Brgd123's site- Made graphics for him- I uploaded them via admin panel- I was going to upload rest of them later, but stopped completely when they stole them. (After finding out.)

Site I made graphics for: http://millsberryforum.niceboard.org/

Stolen- http://millsberrymembers.forumotion.com/forum.htm

IC, so they stole your navigation button only rite?

STOLEN:

Navigation Bar (ALL of it)
Snowflake Icons on forum- The white, red and blue ones)
WHO IS ONLINE? Images

I was going to upload the rest of the skin later and I kept pushing it off my schedule because of schoolwork, and then one person sent me a PM on a forum (Not sure which one) with the link to the forum that stole my images, asking I think for something about helping with GFX and being a designer. Then I signed up to ask why they stole the images, the admin said she/he would remove it, as days passed with no removal. Richie pmed me, I posted screenshot in the reply to prove it, and then he/she said that he/she will contact the admin. Good thing I didn\'t upload the rest or all of it would be stolen.

OK, I got it. I will pm the admin. If he reply I will let you know.

I edited my post. I tried- the admin said he/she will, but days passed- He/she login some parts of the day but didn't remove it.

Having visited the two forums you provided links to I have to agree with you.

paint wrote:How long does it take? I reported the site that stole some graphics I made brgd123 on his forum. They say they will take it down but days passed. I am waiting for OnlineGuardian to inspect the report.

OnlineGuardian is extremely fast at deleting piracy/warez/cracks/serials sites and they take a lot of time deleting anything else. However, i do not understand WHAT gives OG the right to delete someone`s forum.

rokstrsk83rdude wrote: If so, then I'm afraid that nothing can be done

It can be done. But it wont be legally.

personaly i dont think the report an abuse thing works, I have reported a forum for breaking TOS and they are still there and breaking TOS

They banned my account there and refuse to take it off and I made a new account giving a last warning.

I sent an improved, fully detailed with links to images of evidence that I created the images on DECEMBER 2008! The site was created on January 10 2009!!! You can see as the founder joined that time.

Paint did you copy right your images? If not then you cant complain.

Which one? You are talking about the fee or the free copyright?

Any one that you used.

Yes.

Paint you have to make sure your copyright is legal and valid from before they put the images up.

I recommend putting © Your Name Year you made it i.e 2009 it should look like

© Cherry Blossom 2009

make sure you use your real name though

I have lots of proof, including the date when it was created, etc.

Paint you have to make sure your copyright is legal and valid from before they put the images up.

I recommend putting © Your Name Year you made it i.e 2009 it should look like

© Cherry Blossom 2009

make sure you use your real name though

That does not mean that the images are officially copyrighted or illegal to be stolen. It's just a sign. The images has to be copyrigthed or the stealers will not be punished or anything. It's just like proposing graphics in the Graphics Proposal section of the forum; they are not copyrighted (unless you obviously have them copyrighted or patented) and they are just there able to be stolen.

I'm am with you, Paint, that the whole mishap is wrong, but remember that the images ahs to be copyrighted.