Do you know the most famous forum in Hong Kong, their emoticon is copied from this forum?

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Topic author: yannybb
Subject: Do you know the most famous forum in Hong Kong, their emoticon is copied from this forum?
Posted on: 09 November 2018 18:21:04
Message:

This forum is called Hong Kong Golden Forum, the forum for the most members of Hong Kong. They stole part of the emoticons of this forum and invented more emoticons of similar style. Have they obtained the copyright of the founder of this forum?
https://forum.hkgolden.com/topics.aspx?type=BW

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Reply author: yannybb
Replied on: 09 November 2018 18:24:37
Message:

This is one of the most popular forums in Hong Kong. About 250 new posts are posted here every day.

Reply author: Jezmeister
Replied on: 01 December 2018 20:21:02
Message:

This place originates from a less litigious internet age - there's got to be plenty still with the same "emoticons" as you'd download from here - but it is what it is. Twenty years ago you used them with "snitz" written in tiny letters at the bottom of your page. You never paid for it - but that was the point - everyone added their own knowledge and experience to the code and the support and in return noone paid anything.
These days, emoticons are pointless thanks to ISO recognition of "emojis" so I highly doubt anyone cares that this site has stolen them, to be fair... sorry! But also thanks probably? I haven't been here for a long time...

Edit: looks like an old style Snitz forum with the tag removed. Could sue but... who's gonna?

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