*crawls from underneath the rock he's been burried under for the last couple of weeks*
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Crimmson : Yes. I mean, I know pretty well what kind of surprise you're talking about. And no, "we" can't prove somebody just made our work their own but you kinda recognize your own handywork, your own approach and methodology.
Some time ago, a 405th member contacted me asking me for my approval to do a print and sell it. I'm alright with that. As far as I see, I have no commerical rights on reworked stuff anyway. I even hope he makes some petty cash from it. I'm mainly alright with it _because this nice young man asked before just doing so_ so as far as I go, we're cool.
It changes however when I notice people using what I'm pretty sure is "my" stuff and calling it their own and that has happened a couple of times now too. How do I "know" ?
It becomes quite obvious if not only the part is copied and the fixes you did are all there, it becomes _painfully clear_ when _your mistakes_ are there too. I mean, right to the last detail. Everything that bothered me with that certain model, stuff I wasn't able to fix back then because I was just too stupid to do it, and I always said "oh **** I really fucked that up, I have to come back to this and redo this and this to make it propper".
Well yeah, even THOSE mistakes, right to the very last detail, were being copied TOO. And not by some 2cents-i-want-to-make-a-fast-buck Etsy nobody. That's what shocked me most, really.
Can I prove it ?
No. But how big are the chances, really, of seeing parts of a model being identical, even down to your personal fuckups ?
Am I certian ? Yes (due to reason mentioned above).
Does it make me angry ? Not really.
If I'd be in it for money, I'd be furious but I'm not so most of all I'm sad about this, especially when it happens and somebody I held in high esteem in terms of being a modeller seems to make himself guilty of stuff like this.
So if it would be any comfort at all Crimmson, I have a pretty good notion how you must feel when you see something like that.
*crawls back underneath rock*