Italian website selling porn games and claiming to own the copyright for them

MichaelF1

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It's not the only one:

(This site using Patreon for the payment)
 

RogueKnightUK

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If you file a DMCA request, whether or not it goes ahead, the reference you get for it can be used to remove the website from Google's results. So file DMCA's and make the site vanish from all search results and he will fucking shit himself.
 

Deleted member 167032

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My co writer just had a great idea for all devs... Just add watermarks with anti on your images...
 

u z i

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Nah, Just work together to dismantle that website please!
Should not excists, they do not acknowledge other people's work, steal it and on top of that, charge for it.
yeah i agree, piracy is one thing but re-selling other people's work is frankly ridiculous. the audacity of some folks. lot of well-known devs' games on that website.
 

V.A. Laurie

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We just sent an email to them to remove Freeloading Family.

I am really pissed off that someone is actually selling our game without our permission. I want this site shut down. let's make it happen.
 

Adabelitoo

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If everyone here could recognize at least one game and inform each developer about it, this page could be dead in one week.
 

Deleted member 416612

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Hey mates,
C
We just sent an email to them to remove Freeloading Family.

I am really pissed off that someone is actually selling our game without our permission. I want this site shut down. let's make it happen.

Hey,

Do you have any documents related to the ownership or we can do it by showing our Patreon page as a proof?
 

V.A. Laurie

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Hey mates,
C



Hey,

Do you have any documents related to the ownership or we can do it by showing our Patreon page as a proof?
Not sure if you're making a joke lol...

but we have documentation to prove ownership.

i've discussed this before elsewhere, but I'll do it again here quickly, and maybe make a longer post later...

If you are a developer and you do not own a company to represent yourself, to hold you copyrights, or to deal with your revenue for tax purposes, you should absolutely go out today, find a lawyer, and create yourself a LLC (if you're not in america, find the equivalent where you are)

This provides a lot of power in terms of copyrights, tax filing, personal protections from law suits, and anonymity. It is the single more important thing I can suggest to someone who is a developer or looking to become one.
 

I'm Not Thea Lundgren!

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Not sure if you're making a joke lol...

but we have documentation to prove ownership.

i've discussed this before elsewhere, but I'll do it again here quickly, and maybe make a longer post later...

If you are a developer and you do not own a company to represent yourself, to hold you copyrights, or to deal with your revenue for tax purposes, you should absolutely go out today, find a lawyer, and create yourself a LLC (if you're not in america, find the equivalent where you are)

This provides a lot of power in terms of copyrights, tax filing, personal protections from law suits, and anonymity. It is the single more important thing I can suggest to someone who is a developer or looking to become one.
It's different in the UK, you can be a sole trader and still hold the copyright to anything you create. The way I used to do it before employing a lawyer (and easily the cheapest way) is to write everything down, include printouts, diagrams, logos and the like; then seal it with a wax stamp or embossed stamp and post it to yourself by registered mail, then when it arrives, don't open it. You now have dated proof of the start of your right to claim it as your copyright and IP. I still have envelopes full of stuff from the '90s done in this way.
 
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Midnite Guerrilla

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Well I actually don't mind this one too much. He doesn't claim the games as his own creations, he links sources like the creators page if they exist, he doesn't force anyone to pay him and also mentiones why he is asking for money. The tiers are a bit over priced tho.
I'm dl'ing my own game from there right now and have a look if he changed something.
He hasn't linked to mine. And he's not even got the decency to have a non-buggy version.