Stealing DMFA ideas and using for personal --

[sevva]

http://www.gaiaonline.com/journal/?mode=view&u=647526
Someone I know on gaia is using DMFA's Demonology 101 in their journal for their own purposes without permission or even credits.

[Zina]

Is there a way to report it? I suspect letting the admins or Amber handle it would be best.

[Tapewolf]

http://www.gaiaonline.com/journal/?mode=view&u=647526
Someone I know on gaia is using DMFA's Demonology 101 in their journal for their own purposes without permission or even credits.

Cool.  Ask them when and how the 'Cubi race was created...

[Turnsky]

that's blatant plagiarism right there.

[Zedd]

Oh Amber...Its time you bring out the brass knuckles of punishment! 

[Tapewolf]

that's blatant plagiarism right there.

Even the typos in the Were entry.  I must admit I'm kind of torn between the idea of calling them out or playing along and asking them questions only Amber can answer...

[Turnsky]

that's blatant plagiarism right there.

Even the typos in the Were entry.  I must admit I'm kind of torn between the idea of calling them out or playing along and asking them questions only Amber can answer...

heh, that could be amusing, but given the date of that entry, i'd doubt the individual even remembers, still. not a nice thing to do.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Note that this breaches the terms of service of the GAIA online network, section 4 article g, section 8 subsection 3 article (i) and (ii), section 8 subsection 4 articles (i) and (v), and, under sections 11 and 15, could result in termination of the account...

http://www.gaiaonline.com/info/index.php?mode=tos


According to that, all Amber has to do is send a politely worded email to service@gaiaonline.com that says something like:
"Er, I notice that one of your users, (link) appears to have replicated part of my site (link) without attribution. Would you mind asking them if they could either attribute, or remove said work?"

.. and then sit back and watch the fireworks :-]

[Fuyudenki]

ooo, fireworks?  Pretty!  Let me get my lawn chair.

[bill]

Hot shit IMO.

[sevva]

Yeah, seriously.  I only recently made an account here, but I've been reading the comics for about a year now..And I'm a pretty big fan. 
Running across something like that, blatently plagerized, old or not, is enough to ruffle someones feathers.

Personally, if it was my hard thought up work being used by another, I'd flip out.


I'd have reported it if I knew how to do so..? D:
Sorry, I'm not very well aquianted with the forums yet. ^^;

[Faerie Alex]

It is reported.

@sevva: There's a red button at the top right part of the screen that says "report this journal." Hopefully, that will get a response.

[Caswin]

Sorry, I'm not very well aquianted with the forums yet. ^^;

You're two posts in and haven't driven up anybody's blood pressure.  You'll do just fine, I'm sure.

Incidentally, welcome to The Clockwork Mansion, a magical world where anything can happen.

And often does.

It's scary.

[sevva]

Sorry, I'm not very well aquianted with the forums yet. ^^;

You're two posts in and haven't driven up anybody's blood pressure.  You'll do just fine, I'm sure.

Incidentally, welcome to The Clockwork Mansion, a magical world where anything can happen.

And often does.

It's scary.

XD
Aheehee.  Thanks for that little tidbit of info.
I'll do well to not make anyone need their heart meds.

[Netrogo]

Oh for god sakes...

Cuz of the link you put up I thought I'd check my Gaia  account that I haven't been on in about two years. Looking in my inventory, tryin on all my goodies and I found something. My one pair of boots, two years ago they wouldn't equip properly. They looked all broken up and pixally. Well I reported it. Now two years later THEY'RE STILL BROKEN. Now I remember why I left that place.

Also I read through that and you guys are right that is so a flagrant rip off of Amber it isn't funny. Sink her account like the an old 1912 cruise liner

[xHaZxMaTx]

Sink her account like the an old 1912 cruise liner

Ouch.

[Saist]

... temptation is going to win in this case.

It's Gaia Online. What exactly were you expecting? Responsible behavior, proper accreditation, and grammar checking on posts? There is a reason the place is mocked and derided even by Halo players.

On one hand yes, it's bad that somebody is ripping off Amber's work and claiming it as their own.

On the other hand, this happens on a daily basis with Gaia Online, and as far as I can tell, nobody in the whatever passes for a management staff has any interest in fixing or doing anything about it.

[Faerie Alex]

It's Gaia Online. What exactly were you expecting? Responsible behavior, proper accreditation, and grammar checking on posts?

...as far as I can tell, nobody in the whatever passes for a management staff has any interest in fixing or doing anything about it.

It's sad because it's true. We can always dream though.

[techmaster-glitch]

It's Gaia Online. What exactly were you expecting? Responsible behavior, proper accreditation, and grammar checking on posts? There is a reason the place is mocked and derided even by Halo players.

THAT is bad....

[Fex]

man I can't understand why you want to steal that? I find it the most fun to create it my self so I can claim it that I made it without fear that someone else can say that they did made it. but thats me *goes back to my writers table (also known as my desk)*

[Zedd]

man I can't understand why you want to steal that? I find it the most fun to create it my self so I can claim it that I made it without fear that someone else can say that they did made it. but thats me *goes back to my writers table (also known as my desk)*

I dunno..Inspritation comes in two levels...One created by your own blood,sweat and major effort. Two stolen yet quicky and edited to your own tastes so no one unless carfuly inspected eyes of the real fan.

[mamakaii]

man I can't understand why you want to steal that? I find it the most fun to create it my self so I can claim it that I made it without fear that someone else can say that they did made it. but thats me *goes back to my writers table (also known as my desk)*

I dunno..Inspritation comes in two levels...One created by your own blood,sweat and major effort. Two stolen yet quicky and edited to your own tastes so no one unless carfuly inspected eyes of the real fan.

I agree.But personally,I like to create my own stuff so I can be proud of it.

[Sunblink]

Ah, Gaia Online. I'm not too surprised someone stole an artistic idea there. Unfortunately, I tend to hear a lot about stupid-stupid-stupid-stupid-effing-stupid art theft going on there, which kind of turned me off the website and community in general. If I could remember my password to my Gaia account, I would totally attack them like a loyal little slave monkey.

Is it possible to report something without being logged in? I honestly hope they take it down, or that the people who run the website are anything close to competent.

~Keaton the Black Jackal

[mamakaii]

what is gaia anyway?

[techmaster-glitch]

It's an RP-website. Or so I'm told. I've never been there personally, but Rammenstien hangs out there all the time.

[mamakaii]

i just looked at the website,it looks pretty stupid

[techmaster-glitch]

Well, rammy has told me he's part of, like, five RPs there, so there must be some good in it...
Then again, he is the absolutely insane crazy ninja guy, no wait, he's a ninjaholic, no...wait, he's a ninjaphile...no...wait...he's a ninjaphiliac. So I guess he doesn't count.

(Ha! I sullied his ninjaness yet again! Now let's see how long I can get away with it...)

[Fuyudenki]

About 4 years ago, when I was a member, Gaia was a glorified message board with more users than bandwidth, less than one moderator per thousand users, and a horrible tendency for their PHP scripts to randomly crash because of it.  If you wanted to track a particular RP you were playing, you had to literally bookmark the thread, because between making your post and getting back to the thread, it had a tendency to fall back a page or two, and the delay between multiple users posting meant that I occasionally went searching for my threads over ten pages back, when I'd just posted an hour previous.

Ultimately, it's a big, glorified waste of time, space, money, and manpower, and 90% of the users claiming to be girls engaged in prostitution.

[Tapewolf]

To me, Gaia will always be a terrorist organisation 

[sevva]

Despite the fact that gaia is a horrid website for children to rave on about STD's and Teen pregnancy, there are, WERE a few good roleplays there.  Or...there were.  The one that that person is involved in, totally died because of her man-woman complex, and having to feel like she could control the entire thread, while preaching on with stolen ideas and such.
I've reported her, I just hope that between the combined efforts of all of us, and hopefully Amber too, that she is put in her damn place and shown that STEALING is WRONG wrong wrong.