All Developers Please Read

[flitezimz]

Thank you for stating the issue clearly. I have been disabled for several years and the sale of my aircraft on a website is the sole source of income. Everything I do is copywrited; but that does not stop pirating. Perhaps, if the pirates had a permanent physical disability, they would be more causious about other people's work.

[Mozz]

Just a quick note.

This could be made a sticky, I agree that piracy is basically theft and should be treated as such. A committee to help people who have been victim to this is a great idea.

Also, if there are any designers out there who want to copyright their work (whether it be music, documents, aircraft designs etc.)  I've been told a good and inexpensive way to copyright work is to burn it on disk, put it in an envelope, and send it to yourself (via snail mail). Don't open the letter, just store it away safely. The letter postage goes down in a data base (i think as a code) and is printed on the envelope (again, I think but am not certain). Such information as the date of post is stored. When needed, you can open up your envelope in court and prove that it is your work.

I'm not certain about this method as I was told this by a friend. If you're interested, best to search on google and read up about it.

[Drastic]

Heres my 2 cents lol lets cut off all of the F***ers fingers so they can't use the comp and steal peoples stuff...we could have are own online assians group lol....in all seriousness though that really does bug me that people do this and wish they would have more respect for peoples hard work considering they are doing it on there own time and for everyones enjoyment
   Drastic

[Katahu]

Even though there were not that many posts, the posts seemed a bit too long for me to read. So pardon me if I repeat anything. NOTE: Each post did have a really great point.

According to Copyright Law: [glb]ANY[/glb] new file that is created for the first time, and this also applies to Freeware Addons for any FS, is [glb]Automatically And Upon Creation[/glb] covered by the Law. We all know that we DON'T have to do any processing in order to ensure copyright protection.

However, it doesn't matter how long we stop posting addons. Those thieves will always be waiting for us to continue posting. Time is of no matter to them.

What we should do is create a system or organizational structure that can enable us to verify the authenticity of new addons. How are going to establish that? I don't know. But any of you might now.

We have many developers around here [in SimV alone] that are able to create very helpful utilities. Can any of such developers be able to create a utility that is capable of verifying new addons? The answer "NO" is likely, but there's always the "Yes" possibility.

How about a community structure that is closely connected to one another so that many sites can communicate easily and be able to verify each new addon more quickly and efficiently?

Of course, you people can come up with better ideas that I can.

[Garry_J._Smith]

Hi Gentlemen,

Glad to see the subject of protecting developers rights has stuck it's head up again.

Unfortunately, internationally copyright laws differ and enforcing or policing a breach of copyright is very complex.

However, using the SELECTWARE process is very different because it has a fee for distribution by those sites or people that are not "Selected" for the distribution by the developer.

If your development/software is distributed illegally then there is a financial loss by the developer and internationally that is prosecutable in any court in the world.

No need for magic software, keys or registration processes - just an open declaration on how the software is to be released.

[GWSimulations]

You could ask members to boycott websites that refuse to remove unlicenced products. Just an idea...

[GWSimulations]

[quote]Heres my 2 cents lol lets cut off all of the F***ers fingers so they can't use the comp and steal peoples stuff

[gregbrown]

i pretty much agree with all of you , a lot of hard work goes into creating these excellent add ons and it should not be abused by anyone . greg brown appreciative user of downloads. well done guys!  8)