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Originally Posted by hetzer
I am quite frankly surprised anyone is sharing their works for free.
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Giving away (for free) model designs is the right of the Author and should be respected.
In the same way we should respect the right of those who ask for payment for their model kits.
I spend too much of my time on model work...time that I am not earning money...
and so I focus the majority of that time on models that I can sell...and the money
I earn pays for and justifies the time I spend.
But I also design models that I give away for free.
Some of them are for my own pleasure. Some for promotional consideration.
Some are bait, to get people to my website. And some are just to help out others,
and spread the joy of sharing with the community.
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Originally Posted by hetzer
... if something is for free - it is for free, at some point it will cease to be
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This statement makes no sense?
Something ceases to be because it ends, runs out, is terminated, dies.
Whether it was for free or for cost, has little or no bearing on how long it will be around.
And things that are free...may or may not stay free for as long as they exist.
hunh?
I think you have assumed that "Alice" store has acquired and is selling what
were originally "free" models on the internet?
This is not the case.
It looks to me like a considerable amount of their stock is digital models
that have been pirated (free and cost) and scanned(copied) Print Models.
They may have acquired these pirate copies on the web for free but
that doesn't make them "free" models.
For example, I mentioned that Alice stoore has some Modelart kits.
I don't know if the kits were available as digital downloads or in printed form
but they were definitely not free models. They had to be purchased with currency.
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And lets clear something up...I don't go around seriously promoting website-hacking
or any other form of illegal internet attacks.
Jumping on my comments was a little silly...I think it was an obvious joke.
But to be honest, in this case, I wonder if it would actually be illegal to "attack"
the site in question?
I mean, North American laws don't necessarily apply to China and vice versa.
And sometimes actions are justified in the resolve of a criminal act and to bring criminals to justice.
Can you really "steal" from a "thief"?
Aren't you just "recovering stolen property"?
Can you hack a hacker?
Aren't you just fixing the internet?