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| alert- ebay member "orienblack" is selling thecoverproject covers for $15 a pop! |
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| AppleQueso:
What's to stop folks from registering just to grab unwatermarked covers? I don't think these kind of preventive measures are necessary to protect TheCoverProject. In fact, as TheValeman said on the previous page: --- Quote from: TheValeman ---Asking people to say where they got the files from COULD ... I stress COULD ... cause more issues for us than doing nothing about it. --- End quote --- Instead of protecting us, things like watermarking and such could instead draw some unwanted attention. |
| PDDestro:
Watermarking and asking sellers to advertise for us, yeah, could draw unwanted attention. I'm not advocating that. But, making the community less open doesn't IMO, in fact it does the opposite. I'd be down with requiring people to be active members of the community before being able to DL. They could see thumbnails of the covers but couldn't DL until after X many posts, etc. In fact this may become a necessity as time passes and security of the site warrants due to understood reasons. Ultimately, I don't want to see the Cover Project go under, nor can I stand seeing the hard work done here be ripped off by anyone, let alone by shameless profiteers. |
| comradesnarky:
I kind of think things should be left as is. Is it insulting to have your work (which is really only partially your work) giving someone else a profit? Absolutely. However, if an eBay buyer wants their collection to be covered that bad, they will make their way here. No eBay seller will ever be able to offer the full range of covers here for a price. As it is they have a handful of covers for different games. Collectors aren't stupid; they'll recognize that these games were never released in DVD cases. Some may buy, but, if they like the look of the case, they'll make their way here, find out they got ripped off and take it up with the seller on their own. As for locking the covers unless you're an active member...that's kind of ridiculous. I've lurked for about 3 years now, and only recently registered, and we can all see the wild amount of activity my account has had. ;) There's not a whole lot here to put your two cents in on. It would probably bring in a flood of spam posts. These guys likely aren't making much off of this anyways. DVD cases aren't wildly expensive, and they're charging shipping, but they're using the ink to print, the paper, they have to use gas to get these covers to the post office, it's likely they're losing money on the shipping materials as well. They're probably making a quarter at most. If they want to go through all that effort for a quarter, then oh well. |
| Snowcone:
--- Quote from: ShoothimNow on July 24, 2010, 12:03:38 PM ---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 =\ --- End quote --- The site is a svelt 70GB today. |
| MedaForce:
I was thinking more about this today, what we could start doing is just simply put a line in the legal info or somewhere on the box that says "This cover was fan made, if you paid money for it your were ripped off." This way we don't do unwanted advertising for the site and we get the buyers to report the covers themselves. |
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