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Originally Posted by Doubting Thomas
Guys and Gals,
Why can't paper modelers do like the publishing companies do?
Which is have a "Sample" and then only have the full kit obtainable from
the designer/producer...at the proper cost or membership from their website.
The trick here is the sample has errors. ie: the original test plane that has buggs
or problems that still need to be worked out.
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Jeff
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The sample is publicly available, while the legit file has to be requested.
Good idea if your distribution is limited.
Otherwise your days and weeks will be devoted to personally handling dozens/hundreds/thousands of requests.
For "free-public access" kits, this could be a lot of work.
I agree with the idea of "membership" access though.
I have limited distribution of a number of my own "free" models through my forum.
You are required to register and become a member of the forum to get access to certain file downloads.
When you register, I have your name, IP, email, and location.
Information that is kept private and generally ignored by me,
unless I need to track you down for unauthorized distribution of my models.
Unfortunately many "pirates" still don't care.
We have registered members here (already identified as pirates) who openly copy and trade any model found here.
And, this is all after the fact for OP...since OP already has had his models "pirated".