Ea makes statement March 2 making paysites ok?

[scrappysim]

Details?

[Paden]

Oh, that is funny. Smug, smarmy assholes like that ought to get laughed out of the community for saying one thing while doing another.

[Darqstar]

In other news, it seems a FA from TSR, one of the ones who posted about the 'clarification' and how it meant we had to respect pay artists' work too, has been caught stealing a free artist's mesh complete with the uv mapping. 

Really? Where is this from? 

[SoggyFox]

One of the artists from MTS2 - I'd say more, but she's going to attempt to get TSR to remove the offending files, and if not, I think she's planning on making a very big deal about it.  I've seen her pictures of both uv mapping, its identical, and there is no way it would be, without having taken the mesh.

[Paleoanth]

If the big deal starts to get made, let us know.  I would love to see that.

[SnarkyShark]

In other news, it seems a FA from TSR, one of the ones who posted about the 'clarification' and how it meant we had to respect pay artists' work too, has been caught stealing a free artist's mesh complete with the uv mapping.

Well, it just goes to prove that you never know when inspiration can strike. Now, imagine being a frantic TSR FA who desperately needs to meet a quota or else wind up becoming a sad and pathetic has-been like poor, crazy NeptuneWhat'sHerName. The first thing you'd probably do is check out the competition and see what they're up to. So, while haunting MTS2 (no doubt, imagining that you're better than everybody else because, hey, Thomass said so ) you see a mesh that you absolutely love and want to take credit for. Of course you're going to download it, change a couple things and then release it as your own work.  See? The original artist was inspired and you decided to strike.

[SoggyFox]

Well, not only did Shakeshaft steal the mesh, and only modify it and the texture slightly [I think removing the dirt so it became a decorative vase rather than a decorative planter [I bet you could still put Buggy's plants in them too], but then Thoma$$ hacked her account on MTS2, hopping, perhaps that Delphy was somehow as incompetatn and -he- is [he being Thoma$$] and that deleting all her stuff would get rid of the evidence.

I guess he also didn't realize that Delphy knew who 'Hamilton' was and so didn't expect to get caught red-handed.

This also makes me wonder who else is stolen from?

[HugeLunatic]

I suspect this happens all the time.  Most free creators probably don't go to TSR so they probably don't notice.

[Darqstar]

Stolen?  Hell, the FA's steal stuff from SA's and regular contributors!  Ravena stole Paleoanth's welcome mats.  At least one of them was a direct steal, she didn't change anything.   If they'll steal from people on the site itself, I am sure anything posted outside of the site is "Fair game."

TSR, the Scientology of Sim fansites. 

[Eskimo Pie]

TSR, the Scientology of Sim fansites. 

hahahaha! omg that made my day!

[SoggyFox]

Does that make us the Anonymous of the sims world then?  Or would that be Coconut?

[Paden]

I think all of us that fight those bastards compose the sim Anonymous, but coconut is our greatest undercover investigator and truth bringer when it comes to the dirt on them.

[Scurvy Cat]

Yeah, but coconut's been silent for about 2 weeks now.  Perhaps she's been outed. 

[Darqstar]

Yeah, but coconut's been silent for about 2 weeks now.  Perhaps she's been outed. 

She's been quiet before.  She's got friends on this site, and I figure she'll notify any of them if something happens.

At least with this, we're all spreading the word everywhere we go. 

And Soggyfox?  I would say Coconut is the head Anon, we're just the minions.  Although I am so known on the net as Darqstar, I don't think I could ever claim to be anon.   

[SoggyFox]

Agreed - but then TSr isn't nearly as good at what they do, as Scientology is either, so it seems a fair analogy.