p4tr1ck77 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Hello, I am a game developer whos games have been being sold illegally. On the seller's 'product page' I noticed that paint.net was being sold under the name of 'creative paint'. I personally love paint.net and use it all the time and feel anger towards this person, and am going around to all his victims informing them, hoping that SOMEONE has the recourses to end this. http://www.hardycreations.com/MyProducts.html If you scroll down, you will see Paint.NET being sold for $50 under the name of 'creative paint'. Along the way, you will see many open source projects and other scams. Please stop him, I unfortunately never thought of copyrighting my game, and now have no legal ability to my knowledge to bring him down, nor the money to do so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Yeah, he's well-known in the PDN community. IIRC he's selling an old (when Paint.NET was FOSS but a Cathedral) version of Paint.NET, but with closed-source plugins. http://youfailit.net/?p=49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Yup. Michael James Hardy is a worthless scumbag. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p4tr1ck77 Posted June 29, 2010 Author Share Posted June 29, 2010 That sucks. Damn, looks like he even released his own 'Doom' game. What an <Family-friendly forum.>... What can we do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 What can we do? Not much. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I can't wait until he discovers Windows Movie Maker and starts releasing movies ... The Godfather by Michael J. Hardy Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Titanic by M. J. Hardy. Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance McKnight Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 You would think that the idiot would make his own logo and everything. He pretty much copied and pasted everything from the PDN website. What a cookie! Quote Officially retired from this forum. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 And people wonder why I closed the source code. He's still peddling some frakensteined fork of v3.36. 1 Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayor_McSteeze Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I still use V3.36! Which is becoming ancient Quote Vortex Tutorial | Texture Tutorial | My Gallery | Glossy Water Tut | | deviantART | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n d Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 That hardy guy sounds like a total <family-friendly forum>. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 I still use V3.36! Which is becoming ancient You need to upgrade immediately. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineappleQc Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 someone should send the emergency-upgrade team. Quote "Ah, i love it when huge pineapples try to take over the world, it makes me sentimental :')" -Stephan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I finally sent the loser an e-mail and he has taken the site down. Again. We'll see how long until he puts it back up again ... By the way, looks like he had hopped from .com to .net since the first post in this thread (http://hardycreations.net in other words). No doubt his "old" host got wind of his plagiarism and dumped him. I had never threatened actual legal action before, but I decided now was the time for it. Michael J Hardy,This e-mail is in reference to the website at http://www.hardycreations.net/paint/ "Creative Paint" is a plagiarized version of Paint.NET, http://www.getpaint.net/ . You are claiming to be its author, and have released it under a new license. This is not permitted by the Paint.NET license, and therefore you are breaking the law. "Creative Paint" includes effect plugins which are being distributed without their authors' permissions, which is in violation of United States copyright law. The plugins' original place of publication is on the Paint.NET forum, http://forums.getpai...ublishing-only/ , where it is clearly stated that redistribution is not allowed unless you have permission from the author. You are also plagiarizing content from the Paint.NET website, http://www.getpaint.net/, which is not permitted -- the website's contents are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You are not providing attribution, and since you are attempting to sell "Creative Paint" for $50, which is a commercial endeavor, you are not permitted to use the content in any way. You must immediately discontinue the "Creative Paint" product and take down the website. Michael, you've been repeating this offense for the last several years and I'm sick of it, as are many of the plugin authors you've been plagiarizing. If you continue with this, then I will bring legal action against you. I am also sending a copy of this e-mail to your hosting provider. I don't think they will appreciate you using their servers for this. -Rick Brewster, author of Paint.NET Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry533482 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I'm just curious, before v3.5, why did you release PDN under the MIT license? I mean, it was pretty cool, but seriously, the right to sell the software without restriction? Wouldn't a custom EULA have been a better idea? Quote Space...The Final Frontier. -James Tiberius Kirk; circa 2260s My gallery: Jerry's Paint.NET creations My tuts: sun galaxy rings My youtube: http://www.youtube.com/jerry533482 YLOD VICTIM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance McKnight Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Way to go, Rick, it's about time you showed him, you have all of us behind you and rooting you on. Right, guys? Quote Officially retired from this forum. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martel Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Way to go, Rick, it's about time you showed him, you have all of us behind you and rooting you on. Right, guys? Absolutely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninja Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 That guy sounds like a total downie, may he shrivel in hell until his own nastiness eats him up. Anyone wants tea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisco97 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Great, glad that is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sozo Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I finally sent the loser an e-mail and he has taken the site down. Again. We'll see how long until he puts it back up again ... By the way, looks like he had hopped from .com to .net since the first post in this thread (http://hardycreations.net in other words). No doubt his "old" host got wind of his plagiarism and dumped him. I had never threatened actual legal action before, but I decided now was the time for it. Paint.NET does seem to be missing from the website now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 This scumbag is back. He's got a new version (as of this past May) uploaded on a dedicated site (creative hyphen paint dot com). Installed it on a VM and not only does he claim it's his, the about file claims that he "had the idea for it" years ago. If I type what I really think about him I'd have to give myself a warning. He's not charging for it, but he is asking for donations and still packaging stolen plugins from the forum. 1 Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 aaaaargghh I hate that guy. 1 Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 I really thought I was being punk'd the first time I saw it this morning. Dat interface... How does anyone think it's any good? 1 Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 I just saw the interface. Goodness it looked a clown throw up all over it. Can legal action be taken on this guy? Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 And then the guy has the nerve to say his family supported him during the development. What development!? A copy and paste project? I don't like this guy. Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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