Our mod has been stolen

[Igiss]

One of the newly found Russian servers with a homepage located at http://flserver.ru has attracted my attention recently. They started by using Discovery 4.84 on their server, but in less than a month made their own mod named "Alliance". The mod had the same size as Discovery 4.84, and I downloaded it to see what they got.

After unpacking the mod and comparing it with Discovery 4.84 by an utility called CSDiff, I found that out of ~1420 files that Discovery mod contains:
- 18 new files added by creators of Alliance;
- 9 files were deleted;
- 44 files were modified;
- 1370 files were not changed.
96% of the mod's files were not modified in any way. To make things worse, Alliance included a completely rewritten readme file (in Russian) that listed 3 "authors" of the mod (administrators of http://flserver.ru). Me and everyone who contributed their code and models for Discovery were not included into the document. Original readme.txt for Discovery was deleted.

The mod includes all ship models that Discovery included. Unlike me, Alliance authors did not ask permission for any of the 3rd party models. Also, they leaved all models created specially for Discovery by our community members, also without asking anyone's permission. This is, for example, what their map looks like:



Compare with original: http://discoverygc.com/files/discoverymap.gif

I have started a thread on their forum trying to persuade them to remove the content they stole from Discovery. They did not agree, and admins have initiated a flame war against me and Treewyrm who wrote there too. We were insulted, called "overseas jews", and blamed for unwillingness to co-operate.

Won't encourage you to go there and write anything else, since the site is Russian-only, and will ask not to attempt to do anything illegit against their site or server (I know that some of you might think that revenge might be a proper way to act, but I won't agree). However, watch out. If they will attempt to promote their website on any international resources like Mod DB, Fileplanet or others, we will need to take appropriate action.

[chopper]

Well, that's really.. pathetic.. And has no point.
Well, at least we'v practiced flaming a bit here, so, Russian dictionary in ya'r hands!
Kidding, of course..

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Can't let you bash folks in your sig Chopper-Del

[Jinx]

wonder if there is a way to ensure by law that they have to contribute to copyrights - but in the modding scene, i doubt there is. i wonder why they don t credit disco for it - its not like they loose anything by doing so.

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[Dopamino]

Wow that's bad. Not only are they thieves but they're bigots too. Maybe next mod update you could include a little line of code that would fry their server?

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I mostly lurk around Media Center these days.

[BULLDOGNK]

Igiss my eyes are wide open to these guys.

they will not get away with this load of rubbish

Cheers

[Eppy]

I suppose INTERPOL can't do jack, either. I hate international law. Shall we invade their server, maybe? Get us an ISP, build up an army or so and conquer? We're probably better pilots to boot, we've been playing this mod longer than they've stolen it...maybe import a few of our clans like Void was flooding here?

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.

[kingvaillant]

Pull out the Pitchforks!!!

Yes, indeed, we must not encourrage them, nor try to fight them in any ways (directly), All we need to do is to discourrage people from going there and their server will die in the egg.

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[DBoy1612]

Now that is just sad, plain old sad. So, they're stealing yours and everyone elses contributes to the mod just because they're to clueless to come up with something themselves?

Yes, very sad indeed.

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Retired Admin
What Dustin now spends his free time doing... Don't hurt me... Though EVEMail me if you play. ^_^

[Dopamino]

Ok, I gave them a thumbs-down on StumbleUpon. Take that!

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I mostly lurk around Media Center these days.

[Heartless]

19 users reading this now, just goes to show how much the Disco community actually cares.:)

Now there has to be SOME legal action that's available... right? I mean, would the fact that they are in Russia change this?

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SwissScorch --> Heartless