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Megavideo Shut Down, The Beginning Of The End For Piracy?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:10:47 -0600

Megavideo Shut Down, The Beginning Of The End For Piracy?

There are many others services as mediafire, rapidshare, etc that should be closed and that actually are used by pirates. The Megavideo and megaupload closure it's a beginning but the war is long...we have emailed f.b.i. too with a list of people adding their names, surnames and addresses.

Today we catch another intelligent one (pirate) trying to make something against us but obviously i can't give new ideas to usual pirates. He has been blocked and hit....hope they will close mediafire too

waiting the next one....

Merry Christams to all and customers to avoid list

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:10:02 -0600

It's Christmas and all are good so which is the best day to publish a customers to avoid list?

If you are into flightsim business or you are a developer and sold one of your product to one customer into this list, you have 100% to have your product pirated very fast, less than a week.

Save your efforts or job avoid those people.

Customers to Avoid list

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to our 77 members, now 80 since i wrote it, (paying 10,00$ life membership), others showed who they are.

Countries list banned

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:08:32 -0500

Due to problems or just tries to create problems to our server or website those countries has been banned so can't have access:

Azerbaijan
Belarus
Latvia
Lithuania
Georgia
Estonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Romania and Moldova
Bulgaria
Croatia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Azjerbajan
Albania
Yugoslavia
Serbia
Montenegro
Ucraina
Venezuela
Chile
Cina
Cech republic
Marocco
Algeria
Turkey
Uruguay
Belize
and many more. Also the rare spam we received all disappeared now. Probably Russia is the next one.

Fun post about Xtreme Simulation Weekend Sydney Cancelled

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:16:20 -0500

i was reading yesterday a post about " Xtreme Simulation Weekend Sydney Cancelled", it is really fun the position of the owner

(I would like to apologise to those of you who may have already made travel and accommodation plans to attend the event. I understand your frustration, however please consider the months of planning, the time, a very considerable amount of money (thousands of dollars) and resources that I have personally invested into the event; and then to turn around and cancel it because commercial vendors can't be bothered making the effort to attend and promote their products.As a result of the event cancellation and the lack of support from the community and commercial sector, it is unlikely that I will organise an event of this scale ever again.)

Man your problems have an answer:PIRACY ! Commercial Vendors are tired to have cost and no revenue. That's why soon there will not be new reviews or products, and especially aircrafts. The new models number in the last year much lowered. It's rare seen three new models each month. Two years ago there were at least ten new models each month and more active developers.

Why someone have to go to an expo and buy products and why a commercial vendors should spend thousands of dollars for travel, move hardware, etc when people can get something free at his home. That's the problem. The piracy problem will ruin completely this hobby in two or three years or sooner.

Two big developers stopped their product, low numbers by payware and freeware developer, expo stopping activities..if you do not see those as the end of flight simulation on the web you are a stupid...say thanks to pirates...there are many categories created the problems...people sharing products...few unhonest skinners, some freeware people that hate payware, few unfamous website with members exchangin payware products..

We had two choice..stay with unfamous people in an unfamous forum and approving they exhchange our products without pay. This probably didn't create problems and didn't hurt them and we didn't see post against us now and on future or polemics about us. No sorry but i am not an opportunist as few other payware developers that knows the true but continue to stay between them.

I remember very well a developer claiming being best payware developer and so on... claiming he is into this world since fs95, contacting our gladiator's customer making skins...then magically appeared another gladiator (it's not our model) with a "gun effect" that they didn't know how build. This same individual when few years ago started a lysander started a polemic about they had one in their shop (you are the westland's ownier or have the trademark?). As you can see we didn't finish the lysander, he then started two new models we had on sale or coming soon. Obviously he can but it's fun seeing how people accuse others and then did same things and double.

This same individual tried also to create problems to an external shop because they used the term MARKET. Those are the individuals and part of this hobby. If you like them, i don't.

So mr Ross Farquharson, that's the flightsim world...few nice people and many more with problems, hating others or gelous about others people business, or searching for their public enemy number 1 posting on unfamous forums...

Usually in this world who claim the be the best or the older..is the bad one. We started a new registration system to avoid those kind of people..who want an honest flightsim place can register having support, patches also sending corrections or request when is possible and have our friendship too, who want continue with the unfamous world, knows where is the exit

New Registration Module

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:29 -0500

As you can see by the low users number we have completely cancelled our users database, we will avoid spammers and people as pirates abusing of our files and resource. If you are a normal user and/or our customer you can re-register at the cost of 10,00 eur for a life membership.

You will have all advantages and news, updates, new skins, etc, others as spammer and pirates know where is the door.

Hope you will support us in this new way. Piracy created us really big problems due we are a little company and having products pirated by a little group of fanatics can create big problem for paying cost.

Having paying and registered user let's us having a group of selected people we can trust (pirates don't like to pay) and completely dedicate our support and new marvelous products we are realeasing. There are also news about a new modeller joined us.

Fieseler 156 coming soon

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:24:48 -0500

Received tonight the last version of the fieseler 156..starting last reworks by me and it will be on sale.

So if you do not want lost this beauty visit often us.

New registration system

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:52:46 -0500

We added today a new registration method, an icarusgold life membership will give to our old and new customers many possibilities as having full support and downloads new skins, patches, etc on all our products. It cost only 10,00 for all customer's life.

This avoid spammers and pirates register on our website and have support or download patches, etc. After payment we can easily check on our database if the payers is our customer or not.

we are enforced to use this method to stopping few pirates trying to register at our website and download addictional files. Now they simply can't and if they try a ban is ready for them

This is only the first of many steps we have started against their fraudolent activities.

Nemeth Design no more new models.

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:21:29 -0500

what i have predicted few weeks ago it's happening...another developer ceased building new models. It is wasn't necessary being a genius to understand which damages piracy did it to small developers, earning are low and piracy just decrease at 0 level. Just impossible start new models for small developers...a server COST! people modelling cost, support cost and so on. I am really not agree with people talking about top quality don't have this problem. Piracy do not see quality but hit everything. Top quality , low quality, high prices, low prices, no difference with piracy, they just do it for fun, they crack all, they are just cynic people.

Many are worried of torrents, in my opinion the real problem started with download service as rapidshare, etc. What is the best thing of the web, freedom, is also the biggest problem. Noone check files uploaded especially payware download services that earn with subscription and with payware products cracked.

It could be nice that all developer ceasing production of new models, sceneries and utilities for one year...we will see then what theY crack, nothing. I am actually on "PAUSE" modelling and just seeing how can give so many problems to pirates as much i can. I have few ideas actually.

A DEVELOPER BUILD SOMETHING, A PIRATE IS JUST A COPIER

sim-outhouse they continue offending and with their lies

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:23:02 -0500

sim-outhouse they continue offending and with their lies. It's fun that since we discovered their piracy activities between members they continue offending and saying lies when we have all the screenshots proving their lies in this forum.
So their best practise is continue offending and writing lies on their forum. They are able only to offend in group, writing lies in group, etc.

sim-outhouse group can continue for years..i will continue too showing what i find on pirate sites and members from there.

People coming from there make piracy, not all but many. that is the only true. I'm waiting to see their next lies when we will publish a new model. i am waiting when they will ask a free copy for reviews, etc...it will be fun

they never find someone have no fear or worries to stop sales writing the true. I am. it's Time that someone publish what they did it, their lies that they block pirates members (they didn't), etc.

Something we don't like.

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:27:13 -0500

Perhaps this is not interesting for people reading here , because more interested on new models. But we didn't like two things on world wide web:

Pirates

and Internet Shop that do not pay you or pay you when they want and not monthly.

For this reason you will not see anymore our product at Simulshop.com that still have to pay us our last sales and

We asked them to remove our products. For our customers it is always better buying from our shop, they are sure to reiceve all assistance and latest updates.

there will be out soon a general updated version only for new customers.
gladiator will have a seagladiator version
dragon rapide parachute effect and more skins
curtiss pitts sb2 new version
northop gamma new version with the polar star version

all those new models will have also missions.