Template copyright infringement

UtopianGames

I have noticed 12 DBA templates and some from GSHelper and JayLee along with others.

http://gamesalad.menzza.com

Dues

This SUCKS! Always people trying to make money of of soemone elses hard work

gingagaming

Disapointing. I see that some of @pinkio75 have found their way there too...

gingagaming

I did a test purchase Darren and it threw up these email address, im not sure if you can trace either of them through sales on your site? They must have made recent purchases to obtain the files as some are new releases.

transonmta@gmail.com
admin@menzza.com

name: tran transonmta

Thunder_Child

Not to mention it looks like their forums for that site is nearly a carbon copy of GS forums. We should send them spam bot on over there. Lol

Thunder_Child

OMG Lordy there are active members even taking credit for the creator as though they are working hard to make GS a more stable product!

Armelline

Well if they're masquerading as GameSalad themselves, this should get interesting! Though it looks like they've just copied/pasted swathes of the blog.

Armelline

@gingagaming said:
transonmta@gmail.com

Seems to be a Vietnamese guy.

http://help.nganluong.vn/camerahanoi.com.html?portal=help&page=help_intergate_home&help_name=camerahanoi.com&cmd=atm

Thunder_Child

Sure is "Hanoi"ing..badumdump tsss!

.lol. Sorry for the pun han!!

beefy_clyro

Website seems to be down now

Thunder_Child

Good that's BS.

It also shows a fantastic effort on @DeepBlueApps behalf to keep not only his property...his but also benefited GS as they were taking potential customers away from them. Thanks 3rd party people.

floatingwoo

And it coincided with game salad forum getting hammered with spam....

Thunder_Child

Hmmm my be coninkidink. It looked like that site had not been up very long. Was long enough for one guy to have over 1300 posts...looked like he was talking to himself though lol

floatingwoo

He managed to get a lot of stuff posted to youtube....

Thunder_Child

That's ballsy!

How would you NOT expect to get busted?

UtopianGames

Thanks for the info Damien, looks like he's closed the site?

Lovejoy

Like flies attracted to ...

Sad.

BBEnk

this site is still up.

BBEnk

I was reading his forums and came across this,lol those are my games.

floatingwoo

Yep! Guys still up and running.

gingagaming

Think its time to let @ForumNinja know about this. Im sure Gamesalad dont want a forum setting up representing themselves as Gamesalad Staff. The State of Gamesalad section even links staff like @BlackCloakGS here is the link to the fake Gamesalad Kitchen: http://gamesalad.menzza.com/threads/state-of-gamesalad-on-5-29-2013.276/

It does make you think if it is connected to the forum bots though?

UtopianGames

@gingagaming I did a search for transonmta@gmail.com and yes he purchased everything from DBA from the middle to the end of March this year.

beefy_clyro

Retards aren't even reading what they're putting on there

And then the title of this game did make me chuckle considering what they are doing;

http://gamesalad.menzza.com/resources/the-thief-king-full-code-game-salad.60/

Anyway, sorry to see this guys and hope its shutdown soon

Franto

What a nightmare this is.

dgackey

They're on GoDaddy, so it will be easier if multiple copyright holders complain simultaneously, but everyone will need to follow Go Daddy's DMCA procedures:

https://www.godaddy.com/agreements/showdoc.aspx?pageid=TRADMARK_COPY&prog_id=GoDaddy&regionsite=www&marketid=en-US

We can go after them for trademark infringement but not copyright because they don't seem to be distributing anything of ours per se.

I did file a fraud report with PayPal after signing up and getting a hold of the account they're using to collect funds, so hopefully that slows them down. As of right now it doesn't look like there is much in the way of purchase activity.

tatiang

@beefy_clyro said:
aren't even reading what they're putting on there

There's a single account with 1300+ posts and no other account with more than half a dozen posts so it's clearly automated. Glad to hear there aren't any/many purchases happening.

gingagaming

Looks like they are expanding....

gingagaming

@dgackey said:
They're on GoDaddy, so it will be easier if multiple copyright holders complain simultaneously, but everyone will need to follow Go Daddy's DMCA procedures:

https://www.godaddy.com/agreements/showdoc.aspx?pageid=TRADMARK_COPY&prog_id=GoDaddy&regionsite=www&marketid=en-US

We can go after them for trademark infringement but not copyright because they don't seem to be distributing anything of ours per se.

I did file a fraud report with PayPal after signing up and getting a hold of the account they're using to collect funds, so hopefully that slows them down. As of right now it doesn't look like there is much in the way of purchase activity.

Great work Dan

dgackey

And yeah, they have lifted a ton of WordPress themes from ThemeForest, so I expect there will be a bunch of angry IP holders coming after them.

AlchimiaStudios

Lol, I find it pretty funny they have the Gamesalad Kitchen forums copied word for word.

Seems pretty likely they visit these forums.

Hey you, yeah you! You know who you are. Stop. Just Stop.

pinkio75

unbelievable honestly this is the worst thing that i've saw in these years... this guy have stolen my game templates and resold it in these website for less...that's unbelievable...

What kind of person could make this action??? i'm very worried about this situation...