Theft

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:17 Written by Thomas Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:45

Just discovered another blatant ripoff, this time on the French website "Rikoooo Worldwide". Since last year they have apparently been distributing modified versions of the Draken 3.1 installer in two flavors: one for FS2004 and one for FSX (!). Apart from the fact that they have modified and repackaged the contents of the installers and recompiled them, they have also extracted parts of the Flight Manual and published it on their download pages.

To their dubious credit I can say that they removed the files within minutes after I notified them. But it should never have happened in the first place. I also fear that I am not the only author being submitted to this kind of violation on the Rikoooo website, as they seem to be systematically repackaging all downloads using their own installers. Scary.

There is no possibility whatsoever for me to keep track of all the various channels for distributing FS addons, so I usually stumble upon these abominations by pure chance. If you see any of our work available for direct download from any other website than Avsim or Flightsim.com (who have approval from me to host our stuff) they are most probably in breach of the EULA. Please notify me if you discover something of this kind. I may even open a new section in the General forum for reporting suspected violations.

Needless to say, the only versions that will be supported by Bookmark are those actually made and distributed by Bookmark.

/Tom

EDIT:  Removed a comment regarding Simviation as they have now removed all files that are in violation of our EULA.

Comments  

 

#1 kilotango 2010-07-14 16:57

I for sure will keep an eye out, but i'm not surprised, that Simviation participate in this shit.

 

 

#2 Thomas 2010-07-14 17:28

The thing I cannot understand is why people bother to rip off stuff that is completely free.

 

 

#3 kilotango 2010-07-14 17:54

Dont you!
Getting a "small" name out in the big world means soo much for a little person!!
Believe me Thomas, and they dont care about anything.

 

 

#4 keatles 2010-07-16 10:59

Tom:

Have a look at:

http://www.simnetwork.com/SIMNETWORK/downloads.php?cat_id=38&rowstart=630

 

 

#5 Thomas 2010-07-16 16:15

@keatles:
Thanks for the heads up.

I have now opened an "Abuse reports" forum for reporting suspected violations, feel free to use it.

 

 

#6 kilotango 2010-07-17 17:51

Tipping my hat for you!
How on earth did you get this matter on to Simviation?

 

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