Originally Posted by Overload

well, i have been the designer for XTF and Hovidos about a year ago ... what started out as a friendship ended in a disaster - for ME ! ... that guy opened a forum ring and i did my best to provide free forum designs ... all was fine and the ring grew greatly ... i have been an admin there all the time and we were always having hard times with getting spam mails from any admin account (those were obviously fake and scams as one could see from reading the full heads of the mails) ... but wait, this gets better all the time ... that guy finally offered to copyright my layouts ... i thought about it and came to the conclusion that i didnt wanna hand my intellectual rights to someone even if it was a considered friend ... considered yes, that was the point ... when i refused to let him copyright my stuff; the next morning i was suddenly exposed and blamed to be "affiliated with CP sites", spamming and overall a "ghost in the machine" trying to bring down the whole forum ring and my access to my layouts had been removed what an asshole ... ever since i am waiting for APIC-WORLDWIDE to get their infringement form back online to report that damn sucker ... boy, i need a punshing ball with his face on it ... that fucker cost me a lotta reputation and lots more ... if you do bizz with that guy be aware that you will be fucked over big time sooner or later