alert- ebay member "orienblack" is selling thecoverproject covers for $15 a pop!

[Beastman1975]

i dont mind that someone sells a game on ebay and it has a cover i made or was made by others what bother me is when they falsify their auction by saying its a "rare" "special ed" etc version of said game , simply put be honest about what your selling , if its a repro mark it as such , and if they want to link to the site and say here is where i got the cover thats cool too

[TheValeman]

That's a fair comment.

[PDDestro]

IMO it comes down to simple copyright infringement vs. bootlegging. One is non-profit the other is for-profit. Fans vs. scams. It's not only a legal difference, depending upon what country one resides in, but it's also moral one as well.

[thesubcon3]

For most people Greed > Morality.... If I ever sell some of my collection on eBay I don't know if I would include the custom cases or not, but if I did I wouldn't say it's rare or anything, just custom. The thing is, I don't want to get rid of cases themselves just incase I get another game in the future that I would need one for.

[MedaForce]

I found another one: evie_1971
http://shop.ebay.com/evie_1971/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

[PDDestro]

I wonder if we should make access to the covers locked w/o registration?

[BadChad]

I wonder if we should make access to the covers locked w/o registration?

Probably not a good idea. That would just leave us with a bunch of users signing up only to download covers. I looked through the members list before and noticed theres already a mass amount of users who signed up and then never had any activity.

[PDDestro]

I wonder if we should make access to the covers locked w/o registration?

Probably not a good idea. That would just leave us with a bunch of users signing up only to download covers. I looked through the members list before and noticed theres already a mass amount of users who signed up and then never had any activity.

Yeah, I'm just trying to think of something we could do on this end of things. I guess reporting the auctions to eBay and hoping they take 'em down is our best bet...

[Vt102]

I found another one: evie_1971
http://shop.ebay.com/evie_1971/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

Reported all the items to E-bay as "Unauthorized Copies of Media"

[tiktektak]

I wonder if we should make access to the covers locked w/o registration?

I'd rather introduce cover downloads only to members with a minimum post count of hundred posts except in the request forum (we can moderate the postings so that no nonsense posts get through).

[AppleQueso]

Restricting content because of the actions of a few is a bad idea. Why should others be punished because of these people?

[tiktektak]

Restricting content because of the actions of a few is a bad idea. Why should others be punished because of these people?

Maybe because everyone should earn the right to download by contributing to the community?

[AppleQueso]

yeah and while we're at it we should just ban members who submit covers that get rejected 

Your idea isn't going to increase contribution. If anything, it'll turn countless people away from the site and present our community as stuck up and elitist.

[MedaForce]

This would take some work and would double the amount of content, but maybe we could do something like have a thecoverproject.net logo across the legal info for unregistered users and registered users will have access to copies with out the logo. Just an idea.

[ShoothimNow]

as a watermark would be successful in preventing this type of scam, Snowcone just moved 50GB of data, or atleast the "remaining" 50 GB of data... I think that if you were to use a simple remedy like this, you need to have the original picture and a doctored one with the watermark, meaning twice the hosting space needed =\