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Fakes gone

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Seems like most of the fakes have been taken down. At least the Rainmeter ones are.

Everything's back to normal I guess.
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I've been given reports that some scumbags have been re-uploading popular Rainmeter themes, including mine, and rigging the archives with viruses. Here's the fake grievelogs.deviantart.com/art/…

Apparently I need to complain myself in order to get DA's staff to delete the fake, so that's what I did. I got a reply a couple of hours ago stating that I'd have to file a DMCA takedown notice, just like the post on the Rainmeter blog predicted. I don't see how that can resolve the problem on a long term because if you have to go through all this bureaucracy every time some random idiot makes a DA account in 5 seconds and uploads fakes there's really not much you can do.

To be honest, I don't care if someone uses my work and modifies it, as long as they give me some kind of credit. In fact I encourage it. But just re-uploading it in order to distribute trojans surely is in no one's interest. I don't know why Deviantart has such strict protection-policies for obvious spammers and actually requires a DMCA complaint. I feel like Sony suing some random guy because he dubbed his youtube videos with copyrighted music.

So, anyone got a draft for one of 'dem fancy DMCA takedown notices to get it over with?

Also I've been thinking about just reporting them all for pornography or something because that surely will get some real human staff member to look at it instead of receiving automated messages.
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What's up guys?

Been a while since I last updated my journal.

So I logged in today, just seeing how my account was doing, checked recent news and saw that I had over 300 feedback messages. At first I thought it was some kind of bug, but after clicking the button I saw that almost 200 people faved my BlueVision theme and other deviations, 30 commented and 3 major groups asked for permission to add it to their gallery. I was totally baffled and asked myself what the hell could cause such a sudden boost of popularity. After all I got more favorites within 24 hours than I got over the course of 6 months since I uploaded it. My skin skyrocketed to the 4th most popular Rainmeter skin ever!

Turns out the fellow deviant OtisBee featured my skin as a Daily Deviation. I hereby officially and sincerely thank you for this. I really appreciate it!

Apparently my theme was even used in "The Nerdiest Desktop Setup of All Time" www.howtogeek.com/news/the-ner… & www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziSkBj… in a way so epic that my jaw just dropped. That's exactly what I first thought of while creating the original concept of this theme. It's like a sci-fi fan's wet dream.

Thank you all for the lots of positive feedback!

This kind of futuristic desktop-modding genre appears to be very popular and I really got me thinking about continuing my work on this Rainmeter theme. I'll keep you posted.
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Sup guys,

As some of you may have noticed, the poll of the SOTM MAY 10 ended. I didn't expect it to end that early though, I thought these things are open until the last day of the month. Unfortunately I kinda lost pretty close by 8 votes against Rainmeter Dock Plus. Well, too bad. Congratz to Lukunder!

Anyway, thanks goes out to the other 150 people who voted for me, I appreciate the support!

Also, I have to announce that I'll delay the next version of BlueVision, 0.2 Beta, for an indefinite time. I'll have 6 weeks of vacation soon and I'd like to enjoy them with something different than sitting in front of notepad ++ for hours. I really don't have time for Rainmeter at the moment. I'll check my DA account every couple of days to answer questions.

-g3x
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