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