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Referring of what happened recently of a site taking my airplane model in the most coward way ,I now ask my self what is the point of Digging into days and nights working very hard for free ,investigating all about and airplane ,details , making gauges ,bitmaps ,painting looking hundreds of photos ,headaches ,migraines, no sleep (I give my man's word this is true 100% I'm not exaggerating )


the only excuse I made to myself was to have exclusively

I've enjoyed many many hours of flying your aircraft Alex. And for that I thank you kindly.
Now, I can tell you this type of stealing goes on in all walks of life. People across the world donate to charities and disaster funds often to find the aid never got to the people it was intended for. I have even had people I work with take credit for my ideas.
Your work is remembered by the honest members of the simming hobby. I hope you decide to continue on and ignore the ignorant thieves.      

Alex, if you quit, it would be a huge loss to not only SimV, but to the flight sim world too. I know and agree with you about your feelings on the subject. However, just to take the opposite view for a moment. Even if a certain site is ignoring your wishes and effectively stealing from you, as it stands you cannot do anything about it, you are getting to be know world wide as a dam good FS aircraft builder. I would imagine your fan base will be a lot larger due to this site (though that is not a justification for their actions). I know that is right now no comfort to your feelings, but that is the way of the Internet today. National borders and laws do not mean a thing in the next country as far as the Internet is concerned and people are quite willing and openly to use this problem to full extent.
If I may put my point forward, you have to learn to live with this, chill out and continue to produce first rate aircraft for the simulation community. If you left, it would be our huge loss. Until you make the big step of going commercial (and I know how hard that would be in your country right now), just sit back and know what a world wide influence you have made to freeware.

Matt

I understand how you feel Alex, and all I can say on this subject, is look at why you are doing this model making.

If you are truly just doing this so that others can enjoy it, then you have succeeded in your goal,
and the knowledge that so many do enjoy your work should be your reason to continue.

Only the rich and famous with high price lawyers can control what others do on the internets, (Metallica vs. Napster)
so there is no point in getting yourself worked up over what people are doing with your files,
the best thing you can do is look at the positive side of it.
More people are getting to enjoy your work, and by naming Simviation in your read me,
you are ensuring that they will come here in the future to see what else you'll have to offer the FS community.

Only the rich and famous can control what others do on the internet

Even B Gates has no control over what happens on the internet or who downloads all the M$  software for free.

No one controls the internet -- that is what is so great about it -- & of course there is a downside (theft etc) but I was listening to a classical music show today and apparently EVERY (100%) classical musician and artist that has made a career of their art has been ripped off for 99% of their income by the whole range of ways to make money without paying the creator. It's what happens. Be thankful Alex you haven't lost money.

Just relax about it Alex. It happens to ALL freeware and payware creators of everything in the entire digital world.

Yo are making a big thing but everyone suffers the same -- and usually worse.

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Alrot,

You have made a terrific model, thank you!  All of your models are top notch and even get headlined here at SimV.  I hope you continue to create new freeware for us, I haven't had a single problem with any of your models.

I understand your anger, and I think it is bull crap that someone took your model and delivered it on another website, but you should see that as a compliment too, they see your work as true art and want to take credit for that. You don't see that with many other models.

Not everyone gives the correct acknowledgements, and not everyone likes to follow the rules, but that shouldn't stop you from producing aircraft.

As I said in the other thread, if it's really an issue, contact their website host and tell them to stop it. Ultimately they're the ones who are keeping your aircraft on their servers, and they will want to know that their hardware is being used to host things illegally. It appears a lot of people are annoyed about that website, so sort it out! You shouldn't stop because of certain people getting in the way, and there's no need to be too extreme, just tell your fellow designers to get together and you can help to prevent it from going on.

Ultimately they are profiteering from your success, and it's not right. But please, don't stop.

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That's a good idea, Souichiro.

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