Hey wait...ATI is red, AMD was green. And yeah I know I can recolor it, but bleh. The window frames are a bit big for my tastes.

I second that!

I like the AMD/ATI theme. Looks very cool. I have 2 objections, though:

1. No IP theme. A cool Red-ish IconPackager theme would complete the look!

and

2. Like people have been saying, the window borders are a bit too big...

I really don't understand why some people have this outlook.

I can understand that some of the people who have been around awhile have become accustomed to being able to alter any theme to meet their personal preferences and/or to be able to make matching skins to go with a theme.

But wouldn't the better way to look at the whole MyColors encryption thing be that if it weren't for MyColors then 99% of these "Branded" themes wouldn't even exist and therefore you wouldn't have them to edit anyhow?

Oh yeah btw not a bad looking theme. I'll have to give it a try.

I read Stardock's Gamers' Bill of Rights.

Why is their philosophy the opposite with people that want to customize Windows? I'll quote you this gem:

• Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers.

Honest people will always pay for a product. Pirates will pirate things no matter what you do, so why punish the paying customers? It seems Stardock realizes this in regard to games, which baffles me when it comes to their Mycolors DRM. This encryption stifles customization. It's the worst thing Stardock could have done.

It's a free theme. What "piracy" do you think is going to occur?  IP holders, like AMD, have every right to choose how their IP is distributed.

As most should know, Stardock IP in MyColors themes are being released as ZIP files so people can mod it.

Nice WB, but could have used an IP Theme.

Free to use, but not to customize. But why use DRM at all? Why facilitate it? You can't wash your hands of the existence of Mycolors DRM because Stardock put it there to prevent customization. Yes. It is anti-customization.

I have the utmost love and respect for Stardock, for everything it has done and continues to do for the skinning community, and for it's unmatched Customer Service, but it worries me how far Stardock's adoption of DRM will go.

It's still assuming people are Intellectual Property thieves. This is a nice theme and 99.9% of people would never pick up Skinstudio and alter it for personal taste. That tiny group of people that do edit it for personal use never show it to anyone. How does the ability to customize this theme hurt anyone if nobody ever sees the edits?

kwyjibo, as Brad just said, they plan to release unencrypted versions of the StardockDesign ones, but the branded themes need the encryption because that's how the companies wanted it, to protect *their* intellectual property.

Because those companies asked for it does not make it right.

A crude comparison: China wants Google to censor search results. Google has a choice to do the right or the wrong thing, but they choose to censor. Why? Because China's government asked for it. Is that all? No fuss? No code of ethics?

Well it's either that or I guess the companies would tell Stardock, "too bad, we'll go to someone else." That's not gonna help them or us now, is it?

I understand that it's an inconvenience, but going against ethics, wanting to protect their IP as compared to us not being able to customize a free theme? You make it sound like a crime. Making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Who are they going to go to that does what Stardock does? I don't think there IS someone else.

That may be so, but telling them "too bad, letting the users customize the themes however they want is more important than protecting your intellectual property" isn't going to go over well.

Who and what are they protecting it from?

Bebi Bulma shrugs