Hmmm. I saw MY Aqueous XP skin posted, but the author was listed as someone else... They say that only members can leave comments and I didn't want to sign up; otherwise I would have left a comment about ripping.

How does one report something like this, anyway?

Get this post to the attention of Jafo.  He's a good starting point to report stuff like this.

Message left on admin messageboard for Jafo re this. Hopefully something can be done for you guys...

Also, Vampothika ...I removed your link here ...I've posted it on the admin site.

Can't have people going over there & being tempted to get the stuff ...it might be full of nasties etc.

One shitty site for warez and 'dangerous' links....my 'Zone Alarm Forcefield' was quite unhappy with me going there.

Polite message sent.

Thank you, Jafo!

Duh. I should have known that. Thank you!

This site looks like it has managed to hack my machine..... not only has the email account I used to contact them been compromised...my upload usage is now on average 4 times more than my downloads.....and prior to this the ratio was about 10 to one the other way round.

Put politely....it's fucking annoying....as I now have to roll back to an older Drive Image....as well as close out the email account.

do u think a pirate supports polite messages ??

Talk about an evil site. Holy Cats!

I'm sorry you feel that way, Vampy...you did the right thing. Not your fault they are evil slime suckers.

Well I DO, Aaarrgghh, I'd be more than happy to give them a courteous: "Fuck off and don't come back!!!"

Ah...the joys of being 'throttled'....I'm currently limited to a 64k dl speed as in the past 2 weeks I apparently UPLOADED just over 5gig .... where 'normal' usage would have me at 100 meg or so.

I don't get 'reset' to normal until next friday...so I have a week to enjoy at snail's pace.

In the interim I'll export appropriate settings, etc and roll back to a previous Drive Image .... at a time before all this occurred.

The 'hacked' email account will be defunct as of May 31.... which should end it.... but I need to research the whats and hows of mule servers [or whatever they are called].

If anyone gets an email from pauljmartin@dodo.com.au .... it won't be from me.

Funny thing you say this (not funny it happened but strange), cos this month my Bigpond usage has more than tripled, yet I do not reacall going anywhere suspect or doing anything different.   I'm only 2 weeks into my 25gb monthly allowance, yet I'm sitting on 89% usage, whereas normally I don't get to that until the last couple of days, if ever.

I suspect something's up - someone hacking into my wi-fi or something - but Bigpong don't give a shit and will cut me back to 64k regardless if I step over by just a byte.

Guess that puts the carbosh on downloading all those hi-res Playboy centerfolds from 1953 through 2009, then.

As for sites like this, the ones that propogate and perpetuate rips, warez and do harm to others PC's, there needs to be international laws/agreements that hunt these bastards down and permanently end their operations... or alternatively, a vigilante group that hunts them down, nukes all their equipment and summarily executes those responsible,

Sorry to hear of your PC/email woes, Paul.... you were trying to do the right thing and that sucks.

Yeah, that was my fist choice as well... just thought I had better do what's seen to be right in giving the authorities the chance to do nothing and fail before sending out the mercenaries.

It really annoys me that such pond scum can exist on the internet and get away with damaging peoples computers after they've spent so much time and money on them.  As for claiming others work to be their own, well me thinks hanging them by the testicles off a cactus in the desert for the buzzards to pick their bones is a good start.