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How to shut down piracy web site
It has came to my attention via another member that a lot of free models are being sold at this site :
REMOVED LINK TO PREVENT SPIDERBOT SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION Many of the mechs for example are models done by myself, zecks, shiftdel, monkeyrum, yogsolthan too name a few. If there a way to report this site some where to have it investigated or better yet shut down. Also other designers should have a look, I see a lot of free stuff there being sold. Together we can make a difference. Thanks for any help.
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This "Alice Papermodels Store" has been mentioned many times here on this forum, all of their 'products' are copies of someone else's work (I can see Maly Modelarz, GPM, Fly Model, Halinski, Orlik, Modelik aircraft models there, sometimes rescaled to 1:24, sometimes not) - and sadly I guess there absolutely nothing you can do about it. It's based in China and we all know how strict are they when it comes to copyright protection.
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This topic pops up regularly. When I first found out what these ... people do, I was ... very upset, to say the least. They even have some of my models in their catalogue. I've come to the conclusion that it is better to ignore them. Because every time you mention this site you give attention to them. Linking to them is like advertising for them. spinynorman is right, you can do absolutely nothing to stop them. So IMO every discussion on that matter is a waste of time. Ignore it and concentrate on something else. Nevertheless I'm eagerly waiting for the day when this site is torn apart.
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Blaar, Alice is like a chronic disease. They are always there and always going to come up again and again. They have been discussed on the forum ad nauseum. Below is two of my posts from other threads, including at least one important thing....don't put live links to them here. It brings them up higher and higher in the Google search results because Google algorithms think they are important if people click and link them.
You can try reporting the vendor to the parent website to try and get those listings (preferably store vendor) shut down. Another avenue, which I've read about but don't know how to do, is to report to Google that website or search results of the papermodels which they will/should remove from the search results for anyone searching for a certain term. Quote:
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There is something that can be done. Start with the easiest first. I contacted "Alice", requested that they not sell my models they had posted, and they took them down.
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I suppose there is an email address on their vendor store? |
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Because Alice is from China I have long suspected them as bogus. That being said, they are pervasive. The other day I was looking for paper models of US cargo ships. What came up was selections from Alice, particularly a double hull oil tanker that I see here in El Segundo. No links from the original publisher appeared. My first thought was who really publishes this model? I don't know.
The thought for day for this thread is for those in the know, every time an Alice item is queried here in the forum, identify the original publisher/designer to buy from the source. I would buy items I see on Alice, not from Alice but the source if I only knew! This could eventually be a reference source here. |
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Agree with Hathaway Veteran's comments. Have seen several things I would be interested in if I could find the original source. Which I guess is one of the factors keeping Alice going (instead of Alice shouldn't they be the Umbrella Corp?) is that they have the resources to be on E-bay and market in the US.
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there is only one way and that is to flood the market with all those free models alice is selling, of course, with the full original author info included on each one. leave them at craft stores, book stores, spam email to possible alice customers, etc.......
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I say we start ordering stuff from them.
I mean big quantities. And then don't pay. Try to tie up their auctions and sales department with bogus purchases! What are they gonna do?
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