Hey everyone out there,
I am an avid fan of CS and have become a dedicated map maker over the last few months. But unfortunately it has come to my attention that my map, Glass_War has been decompiled, edited and renamed without my knowledge or permission. By someone I can only call a THEIF and a very disrespectful, lazy person who does not have the skill or knowledge to design his own maps.
This person is ShadowFrOMGermany, he?s the leader of a crew called THM and is currently hosting my stolen map on his server @ 213.131.244.241:26080.
I have asked him and his crew very nicely to remove this fraudulent copy, but they simply refuse, abuse, then kick and ban me.
Anyway my main reason for writing here, is so that other map makers can be aware of people like this, who search for good maps which they know are popular (and could never make themselves), then decompile them with the intention of exploiting all your hard work to their advantage.
There isn't much we can do about the fact that with a decompiler, anyone can steal your map and make it their own. But what we can do is name and shame these people! Put it out there, that you are the original author of the map, so that scum like Shadow and his crew (who are just as bad as their leader) can?t get away with it so easily.
Don?t get me wrong, I don't mind so much that they host my map (without my permission), that?s why I make maps, so others can enjoy them. But to be so sneaky and disrespectful by changing it, renaming it and then passing it off as their own work is just disgusting. It's like a kick in the teeth to anyone that ever made a map!
Thanks for taking the time to read,
Sm0k3y?