Quote from: DarkStar_ on March 01, 2020, 06:31:13 PM

The signature (which IIRC roslinpl made back in 2017) has been in use for over 2 years now. I think it is extremely clear that the intention of the signature was not to encourage people to copy it (?) and then attempt seek damages.

Personally I think this case is a lot more clear cut than Vadi2323 - you can't make the claim that stealing a signature design to promote a different service is parody.

This will be unpopular post, but let me clear:

1. There no real damage to anyone from that behavior

What i mean under this term?

- Is there any real damage to ChipMixer? I doubt.
It would appear, if for example under Chipmixer-style signature there was malicious services. Or if some another mixer (or maybe service) which would advertised here used this style. Or if signature were changed to false claims ((how it was in Vadi and kzv case at first, where "Chipmixer" was near terms "narcotraffic" and "terrorism") which would damage Chipmixer reputation. But noone of this there here. Even vice versa, if people see such colors, they be reminded about real service under this signature.

-Is there any real damage to forum?
Of course not. It very different from text plagiarism. With plagiarism of posts, forum become more polluted with spam and repetitive quotes. There become harder to find anything useful and even to stay on forum (it's cringe to see one sentences many times).
But if this true against signatures? Of course not. For forum member or newbie there no difference to scroll down shitpost with original signature or copy.

Soooooooo......

This is unethical, to use product of another's labor, even if original will stay with owner. It's also unethical to use signature while one company is paying for creator and another is not. Yes, this is annoying (mostly for DarkStar and Chipmixer applicants) to see such things.

But as i said above: Wasabi not promoting themselves here, so there no financial interest nor to Wasabi nor to Gyrsur. There no victims (as i showed above). There no harm to forum. So, what's a problem?

I understand DarkStar's thoughts, and Loycev, and Lauda. If you from childhood is under control of copyright ideology (OBEY - saying Netflix, OBEY - saying Microsoft, OBEY - saying any patent troll) it's hard to think independently. But please, use hyperbolization, it's very useful in such cases. Today some people want to ban someone for using three words in the same disposition with same three colors on black background, and tomorrow we will ban someone for using word "Sky" (like it was with NoMan'sSky or Microsoft). So please, stop this shit and move forward.