Fucking burns me up man..
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- TheBlueOne
You know people are such fucks. I publish infrequently (as money allows) a mag for martial arts. Two years ago, as part of a holiday promotion I gave away a small font set I made of icons related to the martial art that I made for inhouse use under the stipulation they are not redistributed or used in commercial purposes to anyone that emailed me within a certain timeframe.
Well and good. Two days ago I got a nice letter form a guy who said his hardrive crashed, he lost the font, can I resend it to him. So being the nice guy I am, I do. And I do without checking. Afterwards, outta curiousity I googled the guys email, which led me to a site where the guy sells fucking tshirts with my shit on it. And to further burn me this fuckhead then goes onto a forum I run (devoted to said martial art - to whit no one knows I run it) and then starts distributing it for fucking free..within a day after I resent it to him explicitly telling him not to use it for commercial work or redistribute it.
I've known of this guy for years - as everything I did with my website or print magazine he tried to copy. I started a webmagazine in '99 and within a few weeks the guy ripped off my fucking concept and graphics. Then I started a store a few years later..same shit. This time the fucker caught me completely unaware and I fucking sent it to him. And he uses the handle "scuzzi". Gee, no shit.
Fuck this guy.
- FrdmOfSpch0
threaten legal action
- Nairn0
What a cock. What an utter fucker.
One thing's copying a font you'll rarely use from a commercial entity - at the exact-opposite end of the spectrum is oiking someone's personal work and then passing it off as your own.
Any plans to wreak your vengeance? You know you can count on the support of the NT community if you come up with something..
x
- Bullitt0
- !!!!!!!!!!!!
- Nairn0
Yeah, throw the official line at him, especially if you have some legal-beagle friends who can draw up official-sounding letters.
Fucker probably simply doesn't appreciate that there are certain bounds that shouldn't be crossed - give him a swift kick up the ass and wake him up.
- Bullitt0
bah freakin french overdubb,
my apologies.
- TheBlueOne0
threaten legal action
FrdmOfSpch
(Apr 23 07, 03:14)Honestly I'd much rather smack him upside the head.
- TheBlueOne0
What kills me too is that he's been using my designs for his fucking logo...and he was using shit I was just about to roll out in a new web redesign I was working on for months.
Here's his site:
http://capoeiragem.com/index.php…
here's the redesign I have been working on about to roll out in three weeks:
http://www.theminiblog.com/Proje…
Since he's been using this shit it's going to look like i ripped HIM off. And that little dude in the upper right hand corner he has and has as a favicon?..that's the little image I use on each page of my printed mag.
- honest0
no no, don't "fuck" him. Call up the Anti-Client Militia and they'll have him strapped to a seatless chair, bound, naked and gagged for your disposal:
- TheBlueOne0
And the fact that this shit has the fucking nerve to email me with the sob story his hard drive crashed and he lost the free font...and I fucking sent it to him!!
Arrrrggghhh...
- Nairn0
Aw, man - I'm so ashamed - he's from Newcastle, from just around the corner from where I used to live. What an utter twat.
If it's any consolation - I honestly don't think that anyone seeing your two sites together could ever begin to believe you copied his shite.
- jox0
Rob Curry, that's him?
I'll gladly help you out with whatever I can do. Fucken scum needs to be lectured.
- Nairn0
I have some spare time on my hands - is there anything you'd like me to put together to send him in the mail?
Faux-legal letter? Death threat? Dead animal? Religious subscriptions?
- FrdmOfSpch0
dont let him get to you. he's a nobody.
- Nairn0
Sure, but don't just let him get away with it either - at the very least, let him know that you and a sizeable group of people think he's a prick (you can exaggerate the size of the group :).
- Nairn0
Fuck it.
*grabs pitchfork and flaming rag on a stick - marches on Newcastle.
- TheBlueOne0
dont let him get to you. he's a nobody.
FrdmOfSpch
(Apr 23 07, 03:38)You're absolutely right man, and my friend has given me the exact same advice.
Like I said this guy has copied everything I have done for years now. I started a web mag and his site there started out as a "web magazine" back about five years ago and he ripped off my copy at the time...then when that didn't work out for him, cause obviously he has zero creative talent and vision, he changes it to a shop when I started a shop. It's been going on for years and I've had words with him via email before.
I guess I'm just pissed that the fucker sends me an email asking for the shit after he lost it again, albeit from a different email. And I fucking send it to him being a nice guy.
You know, this is a pretty small community I deal with with this martial art, especially online - everyone knows everyone. It's not a reputation thing, or even that he took my stuff - it's just that he's so fucking blatant about it. You know, alot of people in this stuff devote a lot of time making tshirts to support events and workshops, put together shows, etc. (capoeira is the punk rock of martial arts in that way) and I gave that dingbat font away for people to use for exactly those purposes - fundraising in events. That was EXTREMELY clear in the original license when I released it, and this fuck just goes ahead and uses it commercially without even contacting me.
I've received alot of good will over the years for doing that, even got sent pics of people using the font in promotional flyers and posters and shit and it has made me really happy..and this shit just burns me I guess.
I guess it's a good thing that it pisses me off, otherwise I'd already be a crusty cynical bastard. Live and learn.
- vespa0
keep smiling dude. send him another font as a freebie for him to install, it's not your fault if some added extras in the font rasteira his harddrive.
- TheBlueOne0
vespa - dude!!! Rasteira!!! hehehe...
Exactly. He'll get his and he won't even see it coming.
- Nairn0
Do a subtle-porn version and re-send?
- vespa0
you know that move where you shake hands and turn it into a headbutt?
when you play capoeira and someone pulls a dirty move on you, it's bad to get wound up right? you just have to swing it back to them when they're not expecting it. same goes for this.