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ARG:

--- Quote from: Mstcool on February 22, 2012, 12:19:20 AM ---You know why i believe them
Well ik smf hates them
and i believe them because they paid those people for those themes and they contacted owner and asked

You know what....Leave this topic lets start a new topic
its a prob between smfnew and the owner of themes not us


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--- Quote from: Mstcool on February 22, 2012, 12:48:16 AM ---Well SMFNEW said they ASKED the owner
and i dont think tht guy is the owner
IM OUT NO MORE TALKING BOUT THIS


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I am staff at Dziner Studio and know the owners quite well. Paying for the theme club does not give permission to re-distribute. Legal action is a real possibility. You are not going to win this one my friend.

 ;)

Runic:
WaiT who owns this hosted service? Is it one of the vbgamer ones?

ARG:
I am not sure but I am awaiting Bikken's (The owner of Dziner Studio) reply on this matter. One thing that I do know is that SMF New is offering our premium themes to customers. This I know is an complete and utter illegal act of distributing.

http://www.smfnew.com/more/themes/

 ;)

青山 素子:
Just to comment further, I don't think this would really qualify as redistribution. As much as one doesn't redistribute Apache HTTPd when they use it to serve their website, you aren't redistributing the theme when you put it on so that others can see it.

If this interpretation of things is correct, merely making any theme from DzinerStudio an option for members to choose would be "redistribution" and therefore any site that uses those themes would be violating copyright.

As this site is a hosted solution, nobody except the hosting company ever has possession of the theme files (accessing the art images, CSS, and generated HTML are required for proper functioning - if someone downloads and stores those then they are committing the infringement, not the site) so redistribution never takes place. This, by the way, was the argument for why multi-hosting sites could legally offer SMF forums to others. As long as the source doesn't change hands, it's not redistribution.

Note that I'm not saying that the hosting site is acting ethically to do such a thing. I think they probably shouldn't be offering the premium themes at the very least. However, the terms under which the themes are licensed allow this. If you want to avoid this in the future, you'll probably have to adjust the language to include something like "You may only use this theme on a forum which you personally own. This theme is not licensed for use on multi-hosting or multi-tenant installations." if you want to prohibit that kind of use.

Runic:
For the original post seems under there conditions easiest way would be to make a redirect board pointing to a new site this will void the agreement and get your forum removed (according to there site)

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