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Is it just me wondering or does everyone think there may be a major influx in the trading boards since magictricks.co.uk has closed?

the site hasnt closed... just the trading forum(should have put this in earlier post... sorry)... all other forums will still be running as usual...

i may have something to do with the trading forum closing down (wasnt me noone saw me do it!!!) which is a real shame cos as im a skint scotsman it allowed me to trade effects which maybe werent "my thing" without having to shell out even more money, anyways i "named and shamed" a guy who traded me a photocopy of 7 deceptions... next thing i know the forum is closed

Mog the Grass!!!!

No wonder you're always 'green'!!!

Hmmm... you're probably right about the copyright thing!

You can still trade here, though - surely?

not a grass... well i am in the sense that i traded a perfectly good effect (unicorn) and a fiver for a badly stapled together photocopy which REALLY p****d me off.. i gave the guy perfect oppertunity to return my goods but he never did so it serves him right cos all he used the forum for was continualy trading.. i mean he'd have something for 2 days then it was traded on again... anyways i can still trade here (if anyone has a wallet they dont use... hehe) but the magictricks forum was a lot more established

You did the right thing though.

yes mog

he agreed to trade something with me, but i found out it was dodgy copy cds, he then agreed to send money, but it all went quite after that.

seems i had a lucky escape

I was joking about the grass thing !!!

Notice how the rules have had to be re-enforced here...

It's a good thing.... I was guilty as charged, without even considering the wrong side of what I was doing (re-selling DVDs which I could have already gleened knowledge from, and then passing on).

It's an uncertain thing, this trading malarky. After reading Laurence's email about such things, it brings it home how someone desperate enough could well abuse the system...

I've developed a lot of routines myself, which I've put lots of hard work into... and although I've never sold them, I'd be pretty messed-off if someone 'copied' my routines for capital gain.

The guys who are out there making money out of other peoples ideas are getting away with it... and I think they'll always do it.

For instance - I've offered my services as an NTSC to PAL conversion service, for anyone who's had NTSC video's which they can't use. I mentioned specifically Derren Brown's Devil's Picturebook video - which I own, and yet you'd be surprised how many people asked me to 'bootleg' them a copy - the cheek!

Part of my everyday work as a designer is copyrighting (c) my intellectual property - whether it be a logo, a brochure, a photograph etc. to try and stop people using it commercially for their own gain.

We call it leeching at work - and that's what it is. I guess that a natural part of me being a creative-type is the strong resentment of leechers, with me being especially protective of my own work.

I hope this makes some sense to all you freeloaders out there...