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lucas81

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Hi,

Now Iam really :censored:. Someone uploaded my scenery without my permission. It happened again. Few weeks ago, I uploaded some small GA aerodrome (code EPNL - Lososina Dolna) here and on Avsim and Simviation. Few days ago I noticed that it appeared on Flightsim and again (!!!) on Simviation. (So this smart:censored: did not even check if the file is there or not :costumes:)

Has any freeware developer met with such situations when his work has been uploaded without permission, etc. ? I really don't care about that, it is my hobby and it is freeware but it is a bit annoying as well.

Regards,
Lucas
 
It happens more than most admit. There was a period a couple of years ago where every release I made wound up on fsplanet without my permission. They would also show in Avsim about the same time again without my permission. Flightsim and Simviation have been good about removing these items when I requested and showed it was done without permission. Avsim never responded. I have chosen to ignore these things as much as possible; at my age it isn't good for the blood pressure!:banghead:


Paul
 
I have had people outright rip my non-commercial videos. I gave up worrying about it a long time ago because it is an endless battle. Most of my fans do the groundwork for me anyways... often in a bad way by belittling the person that did it. *shrugs*

I just kinda watch and laugh.
 
Thank you for your fast replies, Gents!
I have emailed Simviation and asked to remove one scenery as it is now doubled on their service. I hope that at least this can be done.

Lucas
 
Hi Lukasz,

I feel your pain. I like to track download numbers for my sceneries and also like to keep the distribution base small enough so when I make a change, everyone gets it.

NAS Pensacola is a lost cause. I have found it in 11 different countries and have given up sending out takedown notices. Heck, it even showed up on a Flight Sim Warez site...I still don't get that.

I have found that most site owners are pretty good about taking stuff down when asked and provided with proper information.
 
SimV are always really strict about this kind of thing, all you need to do is contact Pete and he'll remove it.
 
I don't worry about that sort of thing. I consider my sceneries pretty much public domain and anyone can do what they want with them.
 
I feel your pain Lucas, had the same thing happen both in this community and in others. It's enough to make you want to stop developing for the public :banghead:
Got an email? I'll send him a nice one :ernae:
 
When I just look at my repaints, I find them turning up everywhere... Apart from a very few exceptions, I only upload to Avsim. But as the Avsim "license" (i.e. the upload warnings) says freeware and public domain etc., then I guess all the other free sites want copies for their libraries too.

You can't really blame them for wanting traffic - if one in 10000 visitors clicks on a payware link and buys something, these sites get a bit of commission. But since you are uploading to the public domain, you personally aren't expecting an income, so why stress yourself out. All those other freeware sites are doing you a favour in hosting your work - they're saving you the effort of another upload and giving you "free" publicity.

Worrying about it will only hurt you...

...unless they are claiming your upload as "their own work" - then go get 'em!
 
I suppose seeing your freeware work show up on sites is irritating, but it can't be as irritating as logging into a torrent site to see 400 people activly downloading your payware release five days after release. That's what I saw after the REX release anyway. I just looked again and there's still 50 people pulling that down and its been out for more than a month.
 
SolarEagle said:
I suppose seeing your freeware work show up on sites is irritating, but it can't be as irritating as logging into a torrent site to see 400 people activly downloading your payware release five days after release. That's what I saw after the REX release anyway. I just looked again and there's still 50 people pulling that down and its been out for more than a month.
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Now THAT is a right pain in the harris!

...and the first person who comes up with a software protection to beat torrents is a really rich man (or woman even)

I wonder... (it's early in the morning and my brain cells are whirring....)
 
This has got me curious. How does a torrent work and exactly what is it? I've always wondered how people are stealing MSFS software. By that, I mean there's not exactly .com websites offering free downloads of payware like there are MP3s.
 
We need a site to post the names of these guys as they do it. I have found mine at sites that they shouldn't be. FSfreeware was actually selling a freeware landclass that I did of Alaska. Same number of towns and cities with the same names. I never did understand that. This new Library type scenery needs to be changed or a way to "hide" the library found. I'm really not fond of working months on buildings and objects just to have them show up in some raggeddy frame hoging scenery.
Last one was "Sweet Shells VA" with Tony 'Red' Underwood as the ceo.
 
JoeW said:
This new Library type scenery needs to be changed or a way to "hide" the library found.
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Write everything (model data and placement) into one BGL and compile it with the model. Then they can't recompile it without the mdl.
 
I couldn't care less from where people got the stuff I did for FS (repaints, panels, etc...).
You can't influence the way of distribution anyways, so why worry? I have better things to do with my time than writing brazillions of emails to webmasters.
 
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