[theme-reviewers] Redistributing edited themes

[Daniel]

Do a whois on the domain name and with luck you may find the
nameservers that would have clues as to who the hosting or the
datacentre holding the server.

On 11/15/13, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
> On your own? sure, I think so.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Chandra Maharzan
> <maharzan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to report that site to the hosting? I saw couple of my
>> themes there too. :(
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>
>>> I took care of that, thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think you may have missed two, can see then on his profile
>>>>
>>>> On 11/15/13, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>>>> > Thanks; too exhausted at the moment to try to dig through the Themes
>>>> > myself.
>>>> >
>>>> > All of that developer's Themes have been suspended.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> He demos http://wp-themes.com/point/ and the download Theme
>>>> >> is modified version of Point which includes this in functions.php
>>>> >>
>>>> >> <?php function wp_footer_hook ($center=false) {
>>>> >>  $f = array("ilikethisgame.com" => array("girl games","games for
>>>> >> girls","girl games","games for girls","dress up games","makeup
>>>> >> games","cooking games"),
>>>> >>  "playallfreeonlinegames.com" => array("pafog","games","free
>>>> >> games","pafog","games","free games","online games","play free online
>>>> >> games"),);
>>>> >>  foreach ($f as $k => $i) {
>>>> >> shuffle($i);
>>>> >> $hrefs [] = "<a href=\"http://$k\">$i[0]</a>";
>>>> >>  }
>>>> >> $new_value = " Thanks to ".implode(" and ",$hrefs) .".";
>>>> >> if ($center) echo "<center>$new_value</center>"; else echo
>>>> >> $new_value;
>>>> >>  }?><?php function wp_footer_func_1 () {wp_footer_hook (true);}
>>>> >> add_action("wp_footer", "wp_footer_func_1");
>>>> >>  ?>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Chip Bennett
>>>> >> <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> Can you point out one of the spam-link Themes at the site in
>>>> question?
>>>> >>> I'll take it from there.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Ronnel Angelo
>>>> >>> <ronnel.angelo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>> I came across this site http://www.alihan.com.tr/blog/
>>>> >>>> It distributes WordPress themes including those found on
>>>> wordpress.org.
>>>> >>>> The themes have been edited to contain spammy links. The theme
>>>> >>>> names
>>>> >>>> were
>>>> >>>> also edited to prevent users from updating. Nothing new about
>>>> >>>> that,
>>>> a
>>>> >>>> lot
>>>> >>>> of sites do that. But this guy also has his own themes hosted on
>>>> >>>> wordpress.org (http://profiles.wordpress.org/alihan1988/) and on
>>>> most
>>>> >>>> of those themes the Credit Link points to the url that
>>>> >>>> redistributes
>>>> >>>> the
>>>> >>>> edited themes. So what are your thoughts on this? Is the guy in
>>>> >>>> violation
>>>> >>>> of some policy or is he just being a naughty boy?
>>>> >>>>
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