The only reason I brought it up again is because we've still got this guy in our circle who can't admit he did something ethically perverse. Yes, he removed the stuff from his site so he knows he did something wrong. But instead of admitting it he tries to label anyone who speaks up as a Greg worshipper. If he even had a clue who's who around here he wouldn't be so quick to make such naive statements. I'm speaking up in support of right and wrong. Until Jay admits what he did was ethically wrong he is still the same character he was yesterday, last month and last year. I don't think anybody anywhere who put so much effort into building a site like Greg's would ever agree to let some stranger come along and steal it under the pretense of "reconstruction". Now Jay wants to leave out the original series stuff. Why? Because he can't accomplish it without the intense efforts that Greg put into it or let someone else hand it to him on a silver platter. It's that effort that Jay has no respect for and tried to steal. He tries to cloud the issue with arguments about who owns the images when it's clear to any honest person that it's a diversion from the real crime. I'm curious to know what other sites this guy built. I'll be we could then track down the site he swiped the material from. Or has he ever even built a site before World of Wackiiiieees?
wow, you are WAY off there dude, I don't even know whyI waste time trying to defend myself for really nothing, but...
I've not labeled ANYONE as anything, not in public NOR in private, saying that I do, did whatever, that is an outright LIE, and it's sad that anyone has to lie over such stupid stuff :(
The reason I choose to omit the OS right now is because as I said.. I don't have time to run 'damage control' when Greg decides that it's STILL 'his images' he already did it with my first runs of ANS, he claimed I removed all his 'shadows' he even said it, AS I WAS TYPING THAT HE WOULD PULL THAT.
If I don't have stuff on W.O.W. that Greg has, I remove 100% of ANY CLAIM / FIGHTS from him
I have had quite a few people offer me scans from the OS but I've told them 'thanks, but lets hold off for now' I have much bigger plans for W.O.W. and not having any of the OS on the site will not make one bit of difference.
Last but not least, Greg had no claims, I pulled those images NOT because I was wrong, but because I did not nor do I have the time to deal with someone like Greg, When W.O.W. is completed and up and running it will be used as a demo site for Topps and other companies, featuring stuff that is not available anywhere else, and it will give those companies a chance to see the software and features in action, and it will give the W.O.W. community some nifty things to play with.
As for other site's I've built, I really can't count them, over the past 10+ years I've built sites and graphics for ford, Nissan, Holiday Inn, record companies, NPO's and many more. I'm not a thief, never have been never will be, and I would ask only what I've stated publicly both here and on Greg's forum.....
Don't listen to Greg, don't listen to me, do your own research, and see exactly WHO owns any and all images featuring wacky packages, no matter what anyone does to the image it STILL is owned 100% by TOPPS and TOPPS ALONE.....
IF those full box photos that Greg claimed "I have determined to be my own creations" were true WHY did he get stopped from selling the poster he made with those boxes, CLEARLY if Greg indeed owned OR could claim ownership to those images he could have sold them.
Common sense people, sheep belong in the meadow NOT online.
-Jay-