to gallery theif or not to theif..
 

that is the question...I know I have seen hundreds of galleries out there that have been ripped off from people all the time so here is my question...


do u really care more about gallery theft of website theft? Now lets be honest here, there are lots of people here on GFY who are webmasters and who only submit galleries all day so therefore galleries are their livelyhood and try to become'professional gallerie makers"

All depends on who you ask,some people make their living from their paysites or distinguished freesites...and some people make their living just from galleries...Theft is theft,or should be

oh yeah,are people who build and submit galleries all day considered webmasters?

I've had shit jacked a few times, sometimes it gets under my skin, sometimes I view it as a compliment, and sometimes I don't care if I know the person, if you know me, just say "HEY I'm jacking this page of yours, and I"m like COO! go for it fucker"

ok that was some serious babble there....back to work I go:winkwink:

Absolutely ...

The gallery builders work just as hard as the avs or paysite owners do to build and maintain thier business.

i agree with this completely however, I know people who have "borrowed" gallery layouts from sites all day everyday and tweak it and addd their sponsor and pics...can one call gallery theft on a format of 5 pics and a banner and 5 more pics and a banner and so on witha text link above and below...catch my drift?

I would say they are...
There are folks that make 60k+ on gallery making...a month.

They have quite literally buiilt huge programs around it.

depends,they aren't much different then the multimillionaire "webmasters" on here who can't even link a banner correctly but have employees who can do everything....and yes there IS some of them on here :glugglug

yes, they are "webmasters". there's a difference between a "webmaster" and a "pornographer".

Pornographers create the content....Webmasters use sales techniques to push buyers to the sellers.

Webmastering is the more important skill....without it, you can have the finest bitches and make no money. If you know how to webmaster, you don't even have to know how to talk to girls and you can make money....

i agree with you one hundred percent,but arent these the same people who submit webmaster free hosted galleries on auto submitters and complain that conversions arent the same? I am in no way shitting on gallery builders in just trying to figure the stance from gallery makers on what they consider thieft and whats not..

heheh...I know the feeling...some people are better at other at other things than others..

layout and gallery theft are different things.

getting layout ideas is different.

straight html view source copying is wrong.

if ya gotta view the source or right click save as, chances are ya doing something wrong.

its obvious most dont think galleries are worth complaining about, if that was the case, people wouldnt paypal me all the time asking me to make them, and pay to have someone do them.

galleries are worthy of protection.

If some guy pays me 600 bucks for 30 + galleries should you be able to just copy them to your needs?

nope.

fletch isnt all thieft thieft?? layout and all? so basically your saying if someone steals the layout of your thumbs its ok as long as they arent stealing the design of the page?

There is a helluva a difference between the banner 5 pics banner 5 pics layout and what Fletch does. You have to clarify what you mean by gallery theif.

no, and why are you being this way?

dont put words in my mouth.

im talking about the differnce between

table of thumbs
banner
table of thumbs
banner

to

table left odd sized banner 2 thumbs
big link and text
table of thumbs
banner
table of thumbs
table of thumbs
movie

etc.

dont try to say I support theft in any way homie.

i dont.

ive been ripped countless times and so have my clients

There's only so many ways you can arrange 15 thumbs with advertising on a page.

Everyone who builds galleries at one time or another surfed around on TGP's checking out galleries and getting ideas.

That's way different than flat out copying someone's work.

maybe theres miscommunication.

theres a huge difference between checking out a layout, and graphical image and gallery theft.

if I design a gallery for someone and do a logo and add edges etc to a gallery you cant rip it, but you can say 'ahh, i dig how he put that text there and aligned it to the right etc...

now we are getting to the nitty gritty here... and fletch I was not putting words into your mouth :)

If you spent your time (hence money) in making custom graphics and banners for the gallery and thinking and using some know-how to make the gallery sell, and then someone takes 1 minute to do file/save as, i believe it is thievery.

Not that i've had any experience with this matter of course :)

come on ya bastards....either you guys are changing your galleries as I type or your not going to throw stones at your glass houses...

hehehe..but roberto i ask you this,and lets be honest here...have you ever arranged your thumbs and pics around a certain format in refererence to another webmasters gallery?

I dont know about galleries, but Im gonna steal your new TGP design. It Kicks ASS!:thumbsup

hahaha

ive painted all the glass here black.

heheh...the same applies to TGP's..is it thieft because of the format of certain sites? btw wouncie the url is www.platinumthong.com ....my lawyer needs some work anyways!! :)

TDF, there's only like 6 or 8 basic layouts to use.

Are you saying there are only 6 to 8 legitimate gallery makers (the first people to build galleries)?

Or are you trying to follow in Acacia's footsteps and patent the thumbnail gallery? :winkwink:

it's simply a case of whats wrong and whats right..if it's a spade then call it a spade...and yes I applied with the patent office my patent for TGP :winkwink:

I usually visit the top 10 tgp's and rip off the 1st 5 galleries i seee and change the background color and resubmit the next day.

Creative Spam, I love it!
:thumbsup

I'm gonna admit straight out that I stole a gallery design once. But since I am in ebony and his was teen white girls and our sponsors differ, I didn't think he would really mind....I only used the layout to make two galleries and then I moved on to a better formula.

I just took the layout...of course the content had to be different...

I don't do it now however. I found something that was more effective on my own. I like that because I never have to look over my shoulder at somebody crying about being ripped off..

Okay.

What's wrong: "Wow, that gallery looks good. The borders are just far enough away from the pics, the background colors are perfect, the font size is exactly right, and that logo looks neato. Here, let me click file-save as-mynewgallery.html"

What's right: "Hey, that spiffy 2 rows of thumbs with a banner and some text, then 2 more rows of thumbs look cool. I'll try that on my next gallery."

i know...you left my special message in the source code that I can query with a spider...wanna guess what it says?:321GFY

hey man.. you do what you got todo to keep the black man down!

lol

nice creative way of stealing...kinda sounds like collateral damage...hehehehhe:thumbsup

pimpdawg you have no idea all the tricky shit I do to gallery makers who steal my shit...some of the shit would make you roll over in laughter...I even had a few webmasters email me back and say fuck you..hahahha

Yes of course, but just some ideas you see, and try to improve them.

And i think everybody started at that point, you can learn a lot looking around other people's galleries, chances are whatever you do it was tried before by others

I see your point, a generic gallery can be defined as 5 pics, ad 5 pics, ad, etc. and that basic format is the essence of a gallery, and what TGPs expect from you.

Innovation sometmes is worthless, i have tried to submit a 100% flash gallery once and i think 2 or 3 brave tgps listed it.
(i have yet to see an horizontal scrolling tgp)

Furthermore, i never picked up something i like, changed the thumbs, voila. Maybe because i enjoy to play around with the gallery and feel proud of my work afterwards.

It's THIEF God damnit!

suck me beautiful

hehe, i stole a gallery once like 1 1/2 yrs ago

and I left the dudes counter on my page lol

You stole that line!

Oh god. You're joking I hope.

:helpme

heheheh...some people get scared when they see the do not alter code in the counter

prove it...im filling out my patent as we speak..

done

My hero.

No.

I think work is work, no matter how easy or hard it is. If there's a mass of people asking for gallery templates, then I guess it must be worth something. btw, I doubt there are many gallery makers not involved in another sides of adult biz, like TGPing, AVS or whatever.

toodamnfli: your quote is not from Che Guevara, but a graffitti used as slogan on French May of 68

I admit, I stole a gallery once, but once I loaded it in FrontPage, I started fuckign aroudn with it, opened photoshop, made new banners/graphics/highlights etc etc. By the time I was done, it looked nothing like the origional, even teh thumbs were diferent sizes/placement. etc etc The only thing that was still the same was the general pattern to the html code, like he used some kind of weird WYSIWYG editor. Ironically, i got a good chunk of sales from it. Even though I found it at around the 75th position at thehun. When I submitted mine, I was listed alot higher.

I migth as well have just started from a blank page In frontpage, cause what I stole, was just thrown out for being too ugly and too bandwidth heavy.

I know this 9 year old girl (family) and she has her own domain, done the design herself, she updates it daily... guess what I consider her a wbmaster... she is a one-girl machine ;)

so therefore yes gallerybuilders can be considered webmasters :glugglug

So true. Unless graphics are stolen, the designer can't do much to protect their galleries layout.

I just patented the term free hosted gallery..