I'm able to get to this thief's commercial site through dA.
The Admin at dA needs to ban his butt. John, you're not the only one whose work got ripped. This guy needs some serious 'love' from Paul.
Apart from that, he actually has the nerve to write this on his commercial site: (I have removed the active links)
"My entry for Clash of the Titans VC 2010 Showdown called Poison, you can find the Clash Of the Titans Thread here
This theme was based on the best WB theme I have ever seen called VENOM by vStyler, all images were reproduced with every detail and of course some of my own style was put into them as well, I made this theme because of the respect and admiration to vStyler.
Please don't forget to have a look at vStylers gallery and his brilliant VENOM WB theme
This was a great contest and all entrants made a great effort and produced some amazing themes for you all to enjoy, I would like to thank everyone who voted for me, your support and encouragement means allot and it's why I keep trying to bring you these quality themes.
Poison can be installed or uninstalled using 7tsp
For a Tutorial on how to use 7tsp have a look here
Theme Includes:
Poison Theme
Poison Icons
System Clock
Shell32 Control panel images
MAX Glass Cursors
New Sound Schemes, Tinker, Glass & Poison
ieframe (IE8) Skin/Mod
System Properties Logo
Getting Started top Pane
Games Menu Preview Pane
New WEI index images with square borders
wmploc (Windows Media Player) Skin/Mod
New Fonts Eurostile, Micrograma, Pirulen & Unispace
Desktop Gadgets by Pauliewog
And much more!!
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This thief has the gall to tell people how hard he worked?! Yeah. While v was on vacation. He thinks he created the graphics?
Sic 'em, Jafo!!!
Edit: The plain and simple fact remains: He did this without vStyler's permission. That was most likely due to cupidity and arrogance.