A victory!

Today we would like to take a short moment to celebrate a victory for supporters of original content all over Second Life. Over the course of last week a creator by the name of Aerofly has lost their Bell 212 helicopter to a DMCA take down request. The evidence for it having been taken down is simple, it is no longer available on Market Place suddenly having only been released for a short time.

BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE!

  A concerned resident has shared with us the following emails (name has been blanked for respect for the provider):

Dear ***************,
Thank you very much for bringing this into our attention. They even stole the liveries which shows that they have zero respect towards us. Blatant stealing and laugh in the face.
We will take the necessary measures.
Thank you very much again.
Best regards,Nemeth Designs Development Group.


Sent from my Samsung mobile device.

-------- Original message --------
Date: 2015/05/16  19:08
To: support@nemethdesigns.com
Subject: Reporting IP theft of a Nemeth EC-135 on Second Life


Hi there,
I wanted to report that a user "AeroConstructor Firehawk" in the 
virtual world Second Life is using a Nemeth design's Eurocopter EC-135 
model and textures in their own product and is distributing it as 
their own creation on Second Life's Marketplace. I have supplied a 
comparison image of the two products as an attachment to this email.
Link: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AeroFly-EC-135-Eurocopter/5358427

You may want to have your development team observe the marketplace 
images for comparison.

This seems to be a breach of your company's Copyright and Intellectual 
property rights. If you wish to take action, you can file a DMCA claim 
against this user. Here are the instructions: 
https://secondlife.com/corporate/dmca.php

If you need more information please feel free to contact me.

Regards,
***************

The helicopter in question is the Aerofly EC-135

And its original model and livery provided courtesy of a short search for the Flight sim creator's EC-135 gave us this:

Given the creator has already said that this is indeed thier product without their permision we will offer no further evidence at this time and simply say:

Aerofly is a confirmed mesh Thief

Dani Airplanes Airbus A-318

It has been a while since we have felt the need to post on this blog but again comes the time when new and distressing information comes along. Today I present to you evidence that is not my own but has come to me by way of an anonymous member of the community. We will not do our usual trick of posting pictures and explaining to all of you who are unfamiliar with the ins and out of modeling as we feel this bit of forum post on a Microsoft Flight Simulator X creator's forum is fairly self explanatory.

Project Airbus' forums

Here yet a second anonymous resident in our community has found and the creator confirmed the source of Dani Airplanes' Airbus A-318. It appears to be this airbus from Project Airbus, a group of FSX modelers creating various renditions of the Airbus line for add-ons for the ever popular flight sim.

Also by yet a third anonymous resident in our short story today we seem to have found the download source for many of Dani Airplanes' downloads. A coincidentally Brazilian blog featuring many pay ware downloads shared openly for free. Take a look, see a few familiar faces? It is sad to see that even when caught red handed such people continue and attempt to cry as the victim. So to close us out with an old and worn out phrase that we all know:

 Buyer be ware Dani Airplanes is a known and confirmed mesh thief