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Pier — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:27:15 -0000

Dear PZ,
congratulations! You are now officially part of the successfull set in the world.
People copying, selling, cloning, counterfeiting and generally making money out of your free themes, should make you proud and not sad. Nobody copies a crust... But everyone would love to show off a Gauguin or a Monet or a Botticelli in their living room.
You have to accept the fact that people are more than willing to pay for your free themes (like me for example... remember or long emails about the Silver Theme?) so, exactly for that reason there will be plenty of people that want a piece of the action and will try to steal from you and resell to innocent ignoring folks who just need to have one of your themes.
Rejoice! You are now part of that small group of successful people that can sell their work and not just give it away...
I know it's tough to see your babies being sold on ebay.
But it is a very clear sign of your success so... Ok get mad about it for 5 minutes... smash a few phones on the wall... but then think of all the loyal customers who are reporting to you all illegal actions.
This is what you should focus on.... the good people around you... not the bad ones...
Take care and enjoy your success.
Ciao,
Pier Francesco

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thephoneclub — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:41:37 -0000

que maricon saliste PIZERO por unos cuantos temas suvidos a foros ya te pones a llorar Joto

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Ganesh — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:05:08 -0000

Hi Pizero!
There will be always, some people who make money by cheating or by exploiting dumb users... If someone posts, on the ebay, those who pay to get those themes, should have some common sense. They should know that, there ALWAYS ARE free alternatives! If they (those who pay and buy) think that they can get good things, only by paying money, they are the fools....

And as for you worrying, please don't worry about it! It's the way world works and you can do very little about it. As long as there are dumb people, there will be exploiters...

A few measures, which might help you. When installing a theme, you can show that your themes are free and display your site name. You can also embed your site name within your theme (like you've done in some themes).

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Y-Red — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:32:34 -0000

支持你PiZero！

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meraj — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:22:57 -0000

I'm glad it has been solved, and I hope we have contributed to the pressure, here is what Handango's PR said:
"It is a high priority for Handango to address potential copyright and trademark issues for our developers' products and to do so as soon as we are made aware of potential claims. Unfortunately, this was brought to our attention while several of our content team members were attending the Handango Future Forum at CTIA in San Francisco last week. We have addressed this process issue and you can count on Handango to respond more timely in the event this type of issue should arise again in the future. In the meanwhile, we have now deactivated the "symbianShow" products from our site. We apologize for the delay and any inconvenience for PiZero."

I will post on that later

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cembellines — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:22:13 -0000

Cooooool!! Wait everybody, you're about to see the best Pizero theme ever to celebrate this!! jejeje. It's a joke! Congratulations, very glad.

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de3pkeeper — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:32:45 -0000

I just think that in order to reduce to some extent the recurring tendencies of theft you can start building your .sis files with UID within the protected range so that they require signing. And as I found out in my own experience there is no way to repack a .sis file with a new UID to be installable on all devices. This should put off copycats from messing wiht your themes.

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MrJackHammer — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:38:53 -0000

"With a little help from your friends"!!!

MrJackHammer

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Elyaradine — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:40:30 -0000

No, I don't. But hi. :P

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jpranarco — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:27:25 -0000

Hi Pizero,
Wow .. I read all of your post here. I really surprised that there are people like that living.
I really understand how mad you are knowing the fact that sick people take advantage
financially from your work.

You are a wonderful theme-maker. In my N95, there are only original theme from Nokia and from Pizero.net. First time I had my N95 I check other sites, but in the last 6 month, I never check other sites,
just check your site.
If it's easier for me to deliver money, I will buy you a beer .. :)
You really deserve that.

Hopefully I will have a Paypal account in the near future.

Best regards.

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Stefano — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:23:47 -0000

So glad, that eventually this bad situation has found the RIGHT solution!!

And now..Keep coming your wonderful themes my dear friend ;)

Best regards

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Gigi Fibra — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:21:21 -0000

Hi mate. Just to say good luck in your investigation. Your themes are great and I think I tried few of them (the free ones). In regards to your concerns, well ... as stated, i really wish you good luck in catching the offender. I am not sure why are you surprised though -- that's the Internet today, that's the piracy today ... This defenitely doesn't promote the EXCELENT free software (unfortunately). The only thing some people get left wth is PRIDE! Pride that they are helping others, pride on the quality of the software they provide.

I'd say you'd need to take a judgement call:

1. kepp persuing scammers - you might catch one or two, but not all of them!
2. Stop doing what you do for free
3. Keep doing it, for free, and move on!

All the best
2.

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meraj — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:17:27 -0000

Isn't this a moment to be aggressive?

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Henry — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:37:56 -0000

there are good and bad people around the world. There is nothing you can do about it except just do what you do best and continue making great themes for the community. I think you should no longer making free theme but instead charge a lesser amount for any theme on Premium, like $1-$3 USD. That way it will not discourage anyone from buying theme and will help you doing the work!

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rav166 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:24:45 -0000

http://symbian-lifeblog.com/2008/09/lets-unite-...

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de3pkeeper — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:15:27 -0000

I have to admit with grief that i saw this coming... What really stirs my guts is the outrage Handandgo pulled off on you with the 72-hour deadline. On the other hand if your themes are still up and on sale there you can keep mailing them about the matter.
And again it just makes sick to my stomach... petty theft, petty people, petty conciousness. Maybe we, your fans could help you. Maybe we can mail the sh*t out of Handandgo till they remove the items and get the seller to suffer the consequences of his illegal actions. I hereby call out to all who have downloaded a theme from this site. IF not money, we can donate a tiny bit of our time to put together a mail and flood handango's "support", "service" or whatever thst's called.
So what we need is the Order Reference Number and the Product Name for that sack of sh*t copycat so that we can flood them with the relevant information.
Here's the link for submiting a Customer "Care" request (honestly, I had to browse for 5 mins till I found a way to contact them): http://www.handango.com/CSSupportItem.jsp?siteId=1
So Pizero, if You read this, please provide us with the info about the fake product and we'll fry their mail server. Standing by for your reply.
For once we can make sure that a scumbag will not escape unpunished. For once we can try and put things right. For once we can stand up for what's good.

-mynick(attt)yahooo(dottt)commm-

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A normal Chinese boy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:10:16 -0000

if u visit to China, i bring u to the Great Wall and eat delicious foods, and also eat a sea of pretty pretty girls, hahaha,, it's all on me,, ^ ^

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A normal Chinese boy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:05:39 -0000

sorry, not bottle, 48 Cans,
1 Can cola= 1.60RMB= 0.235$
48 Cans= 2 boxes = 76.8RMB= 11.29 US dollar= 7.92 Euro

that's so coool if u eating or drinking in China , haha

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pizero — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:45:04 -0000

Thanks for you article, but I think "robbed by handango" is quite aggressive
title. In fact i'm being robbed by Someone that sells on handango. Handango
is not responsible for this, but only they should help me. I hope this will
happen, but they are not really fast at the moment!

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pizero — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:13:33 -0000

Dear, I'm not talking about people downloading premium themes for free.

I'm talking of people that download my free themes, and then they sell them
for 10$.
Do you understand?

(amazing 10$= 48Bottles of Coca Cola. Here In italy 10$= 7 Euro = 4 bottles
only :) )

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gaoyixin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:17:09 -0000

Hi guys,

Yes, I read all. I understand your felling now, and I just want to tell you that lots of things had happened and are happening arount the world.

Have a look at Micrsoft Operating System, XP, Vista, as well Office 2007. I am a user too, and do you know what I am using now? Of course, it is the free one and unlocked.

The problem is that the copyrights was changed, but not the users. I never modify that, however I can do that. I know that everybody do the free thing as a hobby. Like me, I did the Garmin GPS software installation trainning. To support it for free, just because my hobby.

I have 2 suggestions for you:

1. If you fell that the all things are your interesting, and want to share with other people to enjoy them, PLEASE DONT GIVE UP MAKING THEMES.

2. If you thought your copyright was violated, you can sell themes.

PLEASE MAKE YOUSELF HAPPY, but NOT THE USER.

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meraj — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:20:23 -0000

Pizero, if you're reading your comments, just to say that I've been trying to reach the public relations company of Handango and put some pressure on them to give a statement, it's what I can do as a journalist.

Also wrote an article of your struggle: http://phonereport.info/2008/09/15/pizero-being...

Best of luck!

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meraj — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:16:56 -0000

o,hai! Remember me from MXit Forum?

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Elyaradine — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:05:09 -0000

Oh hell. All of the bloody bureaucracy. I feel for you, man.

Thanks for the free themes. The glassy iPhone-like ones are absolutely gorgeous... from the preview anyway. I can't test them - I purchased an N82 two weeks ago, but the shipment it was supposed to arrive with got stopped at customs, citing a lack of papers. The company I ordered it through sent through the papers, but received no reply. Bureaucracy... zzz.

I wish you the best of luck with your claims; at least you're well-known among most of the skin-building community, and a lot of people will recognise your work.

Would you mind if I interviewed you? Just send you a few questions about how you got into theme building, what inspires you, how you manage your workflow, and then publish the interview on my site?

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oleglyan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:57:29 -0000

Sorry about the LetItBit.net - the warez. I see that you have a lot of problems and I made You some. Sorry.

It's me, the one who posted your themes to the Symbian-freak.com forum. I feel very sory about that.