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#1 2010-07-08 12:21:26

colorfusion
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Registered: 2009-10-03
Posts: 500+

Stealing projects without credit

I just found a loophole that allows you to copy other peoples projects and it doesn't say "Remixed from.."
If someone updated one of their old projects with someone else's project using this glitch  the original maker has no proof it was them who made the game and all evidence points to the fact that the real creator actually copied it!
If you want to see proof, look at my "TEST" project, its a game from the front page that I copied, but I have given credit and haven't updated an old project.
I am not yet telling how to do it on the forums until a scratch team member or some-one posts because it could be really abused in the wrong hands.

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#2 2010-07-08 13:19:56

mathematics
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Registered: 2009-03-01
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Re: Stealing projects without credit

Here's part of the "Project Summary" of wiimaster's original project:

History:
    2010-6-2 17:49:19    share    Landscape Creator    wiimaster   
    2010-6-2 18:45:58    share    Landscape Creator    wiimaster   
    2010-6-2 18:50:14    share    Landscape Creator    wiimaster

Here's part of the "Project Summary" of your "TEST" project:

History:
    2010-7-8 17:16:18    share    TEST (IGNORE)    colorfusion

You can still prove wiimaster is the original creator of this project by looking at the date (and the time the project was uploaded).
But there is a way to 'write' a fake date there, too...

Last edited by mathematics (2010-07-08 13:25:51)

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#3 2010-07-08 13:25:40

colorfusion
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Re: Stealing projects without credit

Does it still show new dates if you overight an old project?

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#4 2010-07-08 14:01:26

coolstuff
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Registered: 2008-03-06
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Re: Stealing projects without credit

colorfusion wrote:

Does it still show new dates if you overight an old project?

I think so, but that means the new project has little relevance to the old one.

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