Hergest Ridge

I found a new referrer link in our web logs today. It was from a forum that just started using the Mocha Skin I’ve released a couple of months ago. As always, I wanted to check out the forum so I followed the link.

To my surprise, the credits with a back link to my site have since been removed from the skin. I looked at the source and it still has the final reminder comment that removing the credits is illegal, unless you paid the $39.00 for the permission to do so. Needless to say my PayPal account has not had any new funds go into it, and the skin credit is still very much gone.

The admin of the forum posted a news flash with a poll informing everyone of the new skin. Most people like the skin which is great. What isn’t so great is that someone is ungrateful enough to remove the dang credits from an otherwise free skin. I mean what kind of a weasel does that sort of thing?

I’m still unsure how I will handle this situation. This is the first time I became aware of someone stealing from me like this, and while I know my options I still don’t know which route I’ll take. I have a feeling that this will either go down quickly and be over and done with by the end of the next week, or a drawn out process that will take a year or more to resolve. I doubt in anything in between.