FLASH: Yikes!! You ripped the frog apart?????

[Sienna Design]

Poor frogs, guess that's why I never passed Biology... it's like shooting

Bambi  :)  Just kidding.  


Anyways, I may be wrong about this, I'm sure if I am someone will correct

me, but I was told many times if you use someone else's work and change a

few things that was legal (not sure if its moral).  A true designer will

come up with their own work (my opinion) but while they're learning it's

great to look at how others have done the work so long as they don't use

the work without permission.


I gave up on trying to defend the original owners of a design or a program.

 I called Macromedia and told them how Flash 3 was being stolen, who was

stealing it, and exactly how they were doing it and that they were teaching

others to do the same.  I was greeted with a rude woman who got mad at me

for calling with the info ( she worked in security department and it was

her job to report such incidents) so my last words to her were something

like.. if Macromedia doesn't care that their stuff is stolen, why should I?

I hung up.


Just to let you know Nathan, people are blantantly foolish enough to rip

things off in front of their peers.  The jails are full of people who stole

from their families, friends, co-workers, employers.. etc.


Such is life, the crooks have more rights than the victims, the courts, and

the police.


You won't find anything of mine in the ftp site that I don't want "stolen"

I think if someone is foolish enough to post their work thinking everyone

here is not "blantanly foolish" than shame on you if you lose your work.


I would hope NOONE here is going to go pull swf files from other people's

sites and put them in the FTP site without their permission just so we can

"dissect" it to learn.  


I can appreciate the FTP site so long as as the people in this discussion

group are sending up THEIR work, but if you are pulling it from other

people's sites who aren't a part of this group, or who have no knowledge of

their work being put in the FTP site, than shame on you for doing that to

them.  As a fellow designer, I appreciate the work of others and won't

violate their privacy for the sake of this group.


I'm not sure about the FTP site to be honest with you.  I hope it's not

going to open up some legal problems down the road.  It would if I found my

work in it without permission.  :)


At 01:09 AM 2/19/99 -0500, you wrote:

>OK, I think everyone here is respectable and just want's to know how it was

>done, besides; we have a list of names an email were the same stuff to pop

>up later. then we could just call them out, ridicule them online and it

>would be done with. No one is foolish enaough to blatantly rip anything off

>with a group of peers (such as this list)  surrounding them.

>

>

>>I just keep thinking.  what if it was mine?

>

>I would be f*cking proud that a whole mailing list devoted hundreds of

>threads to figure it out and put up a server just so everyone could dissect

>(sp?)  it ; would be happy to help out as well.

>This is not a business of keeping secrets, we are not a ring of magicians

>closely guarding our claims to fame. I got on this list to get/recieve help

>and this is the kind of stuff I need. I text message just dosen't do it for

>me.

>did anyone just tell you how a frog worked in science class? Nope. you took

>it apart and found out for yourself. I'm not here to ripp anyone off and I

>don't think anyone else is either... they would be fools if they tried...

>keep up the ftp, and thanks for it in the first place...

> (man, I'm gettin' hauty, but I just want to get a point across. apologies

>for coming on so strong, but I hope the point was understood)

>-nathan

>

>nathan king

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